{"id":147227,"date":"2019-11-18T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=147227"},"modified":"2019-11-09T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:28:16","slug":"vaxxed-ii-the-peoples-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/11\/vaxxed-ii-the-peoples-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Executive Producers: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Polly Tommey, Kay & Charles Chilton<\/em><\/p>\n

The team travels over 50,000 miles in the USA and around the world. Interviews of parents and doctors exposed the vaccine injury epidemic and asked the question on every parent\u2019s mind, \u201cAre vaccines really as safe and effective as we\u2019ve been told?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nABOUT THE FILM:<\/strong>
\nIn 2013, biologist Dr. Brian Hooker received a call from a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who led the agency\u2019s pivotal, but now questionable, 2004 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and its link to autism.<\/p>\n

The scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that the CDC had omitted critical data in their final report that revealed a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. Over several months, Dr. Hooker records the phone calls made to him by Dr. Thompson who provided the confidential data destroyed by his colleagues at the CDC.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hooker enlisted the help of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist falsely accused of starting the anti-vax movement in 1998 with his paper on a unique inflammatory bowel disease. In his ongoing effort to advocate for children\u2019s health, and recognizing the failure of the news media to report on the CDC Whistleblower, Dr. Wakefield directed Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe to examine the evidence behind the appalling cover-up committed by the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens.<\/p>\n

Vaxxed was accepted into and announced in the lineup of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival with the support of co-founder Robert De Niro, whose then wife believed that vaccinations played a role in their son\u2019s diagnosis of Autism. Amid unprecedented controversy and calls for censorship, Tribeca pulled Vaxxed from its lineup, after which, De Niro made several television appearances endorsing the film, stating \u201cEveryone should see this film and make up their own mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

On April 1, 2016, Vaxxed premiered at the prestigious Angelika Film Center (NYC) to sold out audiences, continuing for several weeks and launching into a national release that grossed over $1.4 million at the box office. Following the theatrical release, Vaxxed opened up to a theatrical-on-demand release, with 400+ additional screening across the country and sold out theaters and events in several countries around the world. The documentary was also streamed and released on DVD, with the DVD often trending above several newly released blockbuster films on Amazon charts.<\/p>\n

From the initial release in Manhattan at the Angelika, parents began to approach producer, Polly Tommey, whose story and son Billy are featured in the film, to share their own story of vaccine injury. Parents who were called crazy by their doctor after they saw the reactions in their children, parents whose doctors told them their children were the one-in-a-million sacrificial lamb for herd immunity, parents who have felt alone, censored, terrified, and trapped in silence, had somewhere to go, and someone to talk to. Recognizing the every-growing censorship battle ahead of an already marginalized community, Tommey took out her cell phone and began to live-stream these stories.<\/p>\n

From April 2016, Tommey travelled the country, documenting thousands of stories from people who have experienced vaccine injury, and the doctors who treat them. Often dubbed anti-vaxxers,\u2019 they often prefer the term \u2018ex-vaxxer,\u2019 to show they were once in favor of vaccinations, and received their vaccinations, only to find out the hard way that the risk-benefit ratio was not what they\u2019d been told. The \u2018Vaxxed Nation\u2019 bus tour collected the names of those throughout the tour who shared their story, or wanted the name of their injured loved one listed on the bus. To date, there are 7,000 names signed on the tour bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 2019 – Executive Producer: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The team travels over 50,000 miles in the USA and around the world. Interviews of parents and doctors exposed the vaccine injury epidemic and asked the question on every parent\u2019s mind, \u201cAre vaccines really as safe and effective as we\u2019ve been told?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[229,887,232,120,354,1563,710,487,234,734,287,1102,1447,888,126,75],"class_list":["post-147227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-activism","tag-big-pharma","tag-capitalism","tag-conflict","tag-economics","tag-expose","tag-health","tag-human-rights","tag-media","tag-mental-health","tag-power","tag-public-health","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-vaccines","tag-violence","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}