Vaxxed
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| Directed by | Andrew Wakefield |
| Produced by | Del Bigtree |
| Written by | Andrew Wakefield Del Bigtree |
| Distributed by | Cinema Libre Studio |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American film alleging a cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism. According to Variety, the film "purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revealed that the CDC had allegedly manipulated and destroyed data on an important study about autism and the MMR vaccine"; critics derided it as an anti-vaccine propaganda film.
The film was directed by discredited anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, whose license to practice medicine in the United Kingdom was revoked due to ethical violations related to his fraudulent research into the role of vaccines in autism. It was scheduled to premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival before being withdrawn by the festival. In reviewing the film, Indiewire said that "Wakefield doesn’t just have a dog in this fight; he is the dog".
In 1998 Wakefield published a study in The Lancet suggesting that the MMR vaccine caused autism. In 2010 the study was retracted, and Wakefield's UK medical license was revoked due to "ethical violations and a failure to disclose financial conflicts of interest" and for his invention of evidence linking the MMR vaccine to autism. A substantial body of subsequent research has established that there is no link between vaccines and autism. Wakefield went on to become a leader in the anti-vaccination movement that his discredited study helped create.
Del Bigtree, a producer of Vaxxed, was formerly a producer of The Doctors, a daytime US talk show. The British Medical Journal conducted a study on The Doctors and The Dr Oz Show and concluded with this warning about the shows: "Consumers should be skeptical about any recommendations provided ... as details are limited and only a third to one half of recommendations are based on believable or somewhat believable evidence".
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