“Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” the movie that exposes one of the biggest public health scandals of all time. Watch the full documentary.
Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American film looking into a cover-up by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that a link exist between the MMR vaccine and autism. The film investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centre 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”
The film, directed by Andrew Wakefield, was scheduled to premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival before being withdrawn by the festival in the last minute. In 1998 Wakefield published a study in The Lancet suggesting a link between the MMR vaccines and autism. I remember when this study hit the news in the UK. I also remember how amazed I was by the reaction and actions of the Tony Blair government at the time. You would think that if they were interested in the wellbeing of the children they would at least investigate the claims? Spend some money on research… But No! Oh no, what did they do instead? Spend 6 million pounds on an advertising campaign to convince parents the MMR vaccine is safe and effective! Sounds familiar?
After the film was dropped from the Tribeca Film Festival, it was picked up for distribution by Cinema Libre. The film premiered at the Angelika Film Centre in New York City on April 1, 2016.
If you are interested to find out more I highly recommend reading ‘Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science’ by
“What this book teaches you more than anything else is that science is a dangerous game. The notion that science is precise and unambiguous is wrong. When there is doubt, there is the potential for powerful interested parties to make life miserable for a scientist with integrity. Throughout the book, intrigue is seamlessly intertwined with fascinating revelations about the still poorly understood science behind the potential role of retroviruses in mysterious debilitating diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and autism.”
—Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory