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Vaxxed
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Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American pseudoscience propaganda 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 Vaxxed as an anti-vaccine propaganda film.
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5.5A documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that allegedly showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Cast
- Brian S. Hooker as Self
- Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh as Self
- Polly Tommey as Self
- James M. Sears as Self
- Mark Blaxill as Self
- Sheila Ealey as Self
Themes
- vaccine
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Ratings
IMDb
4.6/10
5,254 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
38%
Metacritic
24/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Documentary
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Film.name
- Vaxxed
- Film.image
- Vaxxed poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Film poster
- Film.director
- Andrew Wakefield
- Film.writer
- Andrew WakefieldDel Bigtree
- Film.producer
- Del Bigtree
- Film.distributor
- Cinema Libre Studio
- Film.runtime
- 91 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- MMR vaccine controversy
- Director
- Andrew Wakefield
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 437026
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.vaxxedthemovie.com
- Image
- Vaxxed bus, Monterey CA.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- publication date
- 2017-04-06
- subtitle
- From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
- title
- Vaxxed
- review score
- 38%
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- Narrative
- Premiere and distribution
- Reception
- Sequels
- See also
- References
- External links
Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American pseudoscience propaganda 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 Vaxxed as an anti-vaccine propaganda film.
The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from academics and critics. The film was directed by discredited anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, who was struck off the medical register in the United Kingdom in 2010 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 but was 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 November 2019, a sequel, ''Vaxxed II: The People's Truth, was released.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vaxxed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.