As soon as the screening of the anti-vaccine documentary Vaxxed was announced at Robert De Niro’s festival,experts joined forces to oppose itWithin half an hour of Robert De Niro’s Tribeca film festival posting on Facebook that it had scheduled an April viewing of Vaxxed, the highly controversial anti-vaccine documentary, or a well-oiled network of scientists,autism experts, vaccine advocacy groups, or film-makers and sponsors cranked into gear to oppose it.
At the center of the network was a listserv group email list of more than 100 prominent individuals and science research bodies race out of the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) based in St Paul,Minnesota. The listserv acts as an early warning system that sounds the alarm whenever the potent conspiracy theory that autism can be caused by vaccination surfaces.
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Source: theguardian.com