Another profile in courage bites the dust.
Anything that upsets the PC Snowflakes must be censored! How dare he?
Next thing you know, he will question the wise Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore and his Anthropogenic Global Warming religion.
My wife fervently believes there is a link.
Thank goodness. Anti-vax pseudoscience hocus spreads well enough on its own without being promoted at film festivals.
Other than the hysterical repeating of anti-vax lies, is there an anti-vaxxer in existence who can propose a rational, scientifically accurate, testable biological mechanism by which vaccines could cause autism?
Good for him. The film was produced by a quack and serves only to promote long debunked medical pseudoscience.
“amid mounting criticism that the film would be important in the ongoing conversation”
This gets at a problem with liberalism. Instead of saying what one thinks, or just presenting the evidence, or doing what seems right, liberals jump to the presumed (but highly uncertain and usually mistaken) consequences of their actions.
The vaccination/autism link might be real, but that link could be due to a vitamin D3 deficiency. Dr. John Cannell first proposed this in a paper back in 2005, and in a peer-reviewed paper in 2007, and I suspect he’s on target.
Recently, Dr. Cannell summarized recent research that has been done on the autism/vit. D deficiency link in a paper: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Vitamin-D-and-autism-update-2016.pdf?mc_cid=981de1a538&mc_eid=8079f9b38b
Here is an interesting comment from the paper which, by the way, is well-referenced throughout:
“In the January 2016 issue of Pediatrics, Jia and colleagues presented a case report of a 32-month-old autistic child whose core symptoms of autism dramatically responded in two months to high doses of vitamin D (150,000 IU (3.75 mg) monthly given intramuscularly together with 400 IU/day (10 mcg) orally). ref. #14”
Anyone concerned about autism, or about the effect of vaccination on autism (and of fear of autism upon vaccination rates as well), should familiarize themselves with Dr. Cannell’s work, in my opinion.
Ping
I don’t know anything about this film but I think blanket statements by the pro-vax crowd don’t help their position.
Vaccines are beneficial, yet the do come with risks. Pro-vax people tend to be dismissive of this.
Thimerosal use has largely been discontinued. It contains mercury, which is toxic. In the 1990’s government & health officials insisted there was no mercury in vaccines, which is true. The mercury is in the preservative in the vaccine. Very Clintonian parsing.
Giving multiple vaccines to infants is a relatively new practice, claimed to be safe. Time will tell.
Vaccines are beneficial, but rose colored glasses do no one any good. Acknowledge the benefits, acknowledge the risks, and realize that knowledge is imperfect.
Isa 53:4 Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned Him stricken, smitten by Elohim, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed... 10 But YHWH was pleased to crush Him, He laid sickness on Him,...
Deu 18:10 Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer (pharmacist),
Psa 103:1 Bless YHWH, O my being, And all that is within me, Bless His set-apart Name! 2 Bless YHWH, O my being, And do not forget all His dealings, 3 Who forgives all your crookednesses, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Mar 5:25 And a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, 26 and had suffered much from many physicians, and spent all that she had and was no better, but rather became worse... 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace, and be relieved from your affliction.
Gal 5:20 idolatry, drug sorcery (pharmacy), hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
Rev 18:23 And the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any more at all. And the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you any more at all. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery (pharmacy) all the nations were led astray.
De Niro is a whiny punk who pretends to be a man.
“My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation”
Conversation about anything controversial is the last thing the left will tolerate, because so much of what they believe is indefensible. Censorship is an admission that they themselves recognize that fact.
Hollywood personalities get themselves caught up in stupid causes rather than making films such as “The Big Short”. Wall St. needs to be taken down. We’re on the brink of a financial collapse that could lead to civil war caused by those robber baron oligarchs who owe allegiance to no country, only to their grandiose schemes to create a fascist police state one world government. Watch this video and educate yourself to what “free trade” really means:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEu-OLMKLQ
The flu is not polio. A cold is not the Plague.
Knowing drugs have harmful side effects, why would a parent expose a child to risk?