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    stoprobbersAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:53am

    Oh I’m so excited to get to live in an era in which all scientific fact is cast as the biased word of “corporations.”

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      Aikagestoprobbers
      3/28/16 11:56am

      As a scientist this is false, we’re all paid by the taxpayers - and not really all that much at all.

      even in tin foil hat land it makes no sense. Why would big pharma be giving everyone autism unless they had an amazing autism cure that gave you shingles, whereupon you had to take the amazing shingles cure that gave you scoliosis..etc.

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      College GranddadAikage
      3/28/16 12:02pm

      Are you saying they don't? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING AIKAGE?

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    Mork Encino's Thick PeltAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 12:13pm

    I’m 100% pro-vaccination and don’t believe there is any link at all between vaccinations and autism.

    I do, however, wonder if there is something in today’s society that does “cause autism” because it definitely seems that there are more cases of autism now than there were 50 years ago.

    In a prior life, I wrote treatment plans for children with developmental disabilities. I’d write the recommendations and others would carry out the treatment. I’ve spent a lot of time with autistic children and used to know the numbers surrounding autism. It’s been a while and I don’t know the numbers anymore, but I feel fairly safe noting that incidences of autism are up compared to a few generations ago. So, while I don’t think vaccinations are causing autism (vaccinations were around 50 years ago, too) — I do wonder why it seems to be more prevalent now than for prior generations.

    (If someone has numbers that suggest autism is not more common now than half a century ago — I’d definitely stand corrected.)

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      fuckthisshitimoutMork Encino's Thick Pelt
      3/28/16 12:28pm

      its not that autism is more common- its that we opened up the diagnosis a lot and now kids who would have in the past been called “mentally slow” or just anti-social and different are now recognized as autistic. so It seems like there are more incidences when in fact there always was this many people with Autism, we’re just much better at recognizing the condition now.

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      JoeoftheEmpireMork Encino's Thick Pelt
      3/28/16 12:35pm

      The problem is while we know there are far more diagnosed cases of autism now than there used to be, we don’t know if that means there are more cases of autism or just better diagnosis, or some combination of the two. That and the actual causes of autism, regardless of whether it’s increasing are what people should be focussing on and I genuinely think that that’s what DeNiro was trying to start his ‘conversation’ about. But man did he pick a stupid film to do it with.

      It would be like trying to start a ‘conversation’ about astronomy using a film made by the Flat Earth Society.

      Even apart from the fact this evil, corrupt man* has pretty much single handedly fuelled the anti-vax movement which is *killing* people he is also responsible for diverting a lot of attention away from the issues about autism we do need to be investigating and they certainly don’t involve the MMR vaccine.

      I was going to refer to him as a dumbass but I decided that was too benign. He deliberately falsified results because he was being paid to do so and being a doctor he knew absolutely that vaccines save lives and that if he scared people away from them children would die and he took the money and told his lies anyway, if that’s not evil I don’t know what is.

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    fighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian SrAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:47am

    T E A C H T H E C O N T R O V E R S Y

    /catches Whooping Cough

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      Citizen-Kangfighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian Sr
      3/28/16 11:50am

      I have this on a t-shirt:

      WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!

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      Stig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.Citizen-Kang
      3/28/16 11:52am
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    freshacconciAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:54am

    You made the film. It still exists. No one destroyed it. You can show it elsewhere. You were not censored.

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      justifiablefreshacconci
      3/28/16 12:04pm

      Get out of here with your inconvenient facts and common sense - we have lies and misperceptions to spread!

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      DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTinafreshacconci
      3/28/16 1:49pm

      Well, I mean, I guess it isn’t exactly the shocker of the decade that anti-vaxxers might not know what “censorship” means.

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    PinkBunnyHatAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:57am

    Due process? This isn’t a court, it’s a film festival. He looks like slightly better in this picture, but has anyone else noticed that Wakefield generally has the pallor of a recently dead person? Other pictures of him give me flash backs to my father in the hospital after he died.

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      Harbour SealPinkBunnyHat
      3/28/16 12:09pm

      He honestly looks like a cadaver I once dissected, not even gonna lie it was quite funny.

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      bonnismournedinterruptedorgasmPinkBunnyHat
      3/28/16 12:25pm

      where is Judge Brown? can we have a new column/court where we take the piss out of people who misuse words like ‘censor’ and ‘freedom of speech’? this is just silly...

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    andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbaneAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:59am

    who among us hasn’t been censored by robert deniro tbh

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      LuckyMc44andsmokeit is mrs tormund giantsbane
      3/28/16 12:06pm

      He didn’t show my “film” (i.e. 10 seconds of iPhone video) of the Stanley Cup rally at Soldier Field either, probably because Robert DeNiro hates the Blackhawks and also me.

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      I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyLuckyMc44
      3/28/16 12:39pm

      I have a short film I took on my iPhone, as well. It is of my dog being really cute in the rain. De Niro is not showing it at Tribeca, therefore he hates puppies and is censoring me.

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    AikageAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:54am

    I’d say poor Robert deNiro in that he demonstrates nicely the damned if you do damned if you don’t nature of the world, but uhhh...

    wtf dude, don’t even put that crap on the menu.

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      Junior4565Aikage
      3/28/16 12:04pm

      Yea its like when you invite that one conservative cousin to hang out with your art school friends and he says something conservative then everyone blew their high....I mean they are open to discussion and debate but if you only brought one conservative to a group of nine liberals then it becomes a lot less open.

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      Sherwood2Aikage
      3/28/16 12:16pm

      I could maybe sorta give him a pass on including the anti-vax film ...IF one of the creators hadn’t been fucking Andrew Wakefield.

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    AndyLAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 1:23pm

    One quote that sums up so much that is wrong in our world:

    “It’s never balanced,” he said. “I’ve been in this a long time, and he who pays the piper calls the tune.”

    The truth doesn’t owe you balance. The truth is the truth and it tends to be on one side of an argument. This compulsive need to find a counterbalancing opinion and then treating that as if it had the same validity as the actual truth is at the root of so many stupid, stupid things.

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      Calls From the PublicAndyL
      3/28/16 4:08pm

      YES! I’m so tired of this idea of “starting a conversation” or “hearing both sides” when the other side is spouting absolute nonsense. Like, yeah, there are plenty of “conversations” that need to be started in our society, and there are plenty of ideas that have valid opposition. For example, I believe public colleges should be free. I think a Bachelor’s is pretty much the new HS Diploma, and everyone should be able to earn one without facing a lifetime of loan debt. That being said, I also understand that many people don’t agree with me or have different ideas on how best to solve this issue. There is a difference of opinion and ideas, but both sides may have helpful things to add to the conversation.

      When your side of the “conversation” is based on false science that has been repeatedly proven untrue, you aren’t being denied the opportunity to share your truth when people tell you to shut up.

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      AndyLCalls From the Public
      3/28/16 4:28pm

      “your truth”

      I’m sorry. You don’t get a truth of your very own. The truth is the truth. You can have all kind of things that are specific to you and make you a magical flower including answers to complicated questions that are almost but not quite universal but truth isn’t one.

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    AdamokAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 11:55am

    Just screen the damn documentary and we will decide.

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      justifiableAdamok
      3/28/16 12:26pm

      “Decide” what, exactly? Wakefield is a con man who’s lost his medical license and now makes his money pandering to desperate parents who need to find someone to blame for why their children turned out to be less than “perfect.” Should every scam artist be allowed to have a forum - especially when one of the many quack cures Wakefield is promoting is the “Miracle Mineral Solution” enema - otherwise known as bleach- which AutismOne swears has lead to the “recovery” of autistic children?

      Should we air films that celebrate white supremacy by calling for minority subjugation or genocide, so that we can “decide” if it has merit or not? I can hardly wait til someone decides to make a documentary about Mengele’s experiments in injecting Jewish brown eyes with acid to turn them Aryan blue is something that needs to be investigated to “promote discussion” What? It’d be a “scientific” documentary, just like this one is. Whee! We can be “deciders” on that one, too!

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      CodiustheawesomeAdamok
      3/28/16 2:19pm

      There is nothing to decide.

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    recidiviciousAnna Merlan
    3/28/16 12:51pm

    I’m amazed this guy made it an entire cruise without someone getting annoyed and shoving him overboard. The only vaccines I’ve ever heard of causing death (bad prototypes aside) are the ones people refuse to give their kids, who then get measles or whatever and pass it on to other kids and then one of them dies because, oops, their immune system was dependent on herd immunity, which these anti-vaxx assholes cheerfully shat all over. Fuck them in the brainpan with a rusty trepanner.

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      bubbajoe123456recidivicious
      3/28/16 4:07pm

      “The only vaccines I’ve ever heard of causing death”

      I’m as pro-vax as they come (as my daughter, if she could talk, would happily tell you, along with her plans to put me and my wife into a third-rate home as soon as she gets the chance), but vaccines have caused some deaths. It's not REMOTELY a reason not to vaccinate, though, since the risk of NOT vaccinating is orders of magnitude greater than the risks of vaccinating.

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      recidiviciousbubbajoe123456
      3/28/16 4:36pm

      I know they have. My granddad’s cousin died from an experimental polio vaccine her dad tested on her. The ones that have been proven effective and safe though, they’re not “routinely causing death” the way stupid anti-vaxxers want everyone to believe they are.

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