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Archae

(46,328 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:21 AM Apr 2016

And people wonder why I call "Fox And Friends" the bottom of the sewer...

I mean, anti-vaxx quack Andrew Wakefield shows up there.

Fox Provides Platform For Discredited Doctor To Claim CDC Is Hiding Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism

STEVE DOOCY (HOST): It is a film that is so controversial it's getting booted from some film festivals. Vaxxed: From Cover Up To Catastrophe claims that the CDC, America's Centers for Disease Control, manipulated and hid data that proves that there is a link between vaccines and autism.

[...]

DOOCY: Joining us right now this morning is the director and co-writer of Vaxxed, Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the film's producer Polly Tommey. Polly also has a 20-year-old son with autism. Good morning to both of you.

POLLY TOMMEY: Good morning.

DOOCY: Dr. Wakefield, you are linked to this story ever since back in 1998 you put out a study that linked a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. And so years later, you've come up and you're putting out this particular documentary because you are talking about the corruption behind the scenes at the CDC.

ANDREW WAKEFIELD: Yes, I've been involved in this debate for 20 years. It's one of the hottest debates in medicine. It hasn't gone away. And then suddenly after 20 years, a CDC senior scientist Dr. William Thompson comes forward and says they have known for 14 years that MMR vaccine is causally associated with autism and they have covered it up. And so the film, it's his words, it's his opinion, it's his documents that really carry the message of this film that there has been a huge cover-up which has put millions of American children in harm's way and it was totally unnecessary.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/04/21/fox-provides-platform-discredited-doctor-claim-cdc-hiding-evidence-vaccines-cause-autism/210015

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And people wonder why I call "Fox And Friends" the bottom of the sewer... (Original Post) Archae Apr 2016 OP
I was disappointed to hear xloadiex Apr 2016 #1
Isn't Thom Hartmann on Russia Today? Archae Apr 2016 #2
He is xloadiex Apr 2016 #3
His documents carry the message of the film but they're pretty much all BS so the message of the Johonny Apr 2016 #4
Is politics involved? Undoubtedly underpants Apr 2016 #5
Of course.. sendero Apr 2016 #6

Archae

(46,328 posts)
2. Isn't Thom Hartmann on Russia Today?
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:30 AM
Apr 2016

This by itself really puts a big dent in Hartmann's credibility.

xloadiex

(628 posts)
3. He is
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:40 AM
Apr 2016

So many is Ed Schultz. I heard the interview on the radio. I just recently found RT on Comcast. It's on a public access channel.

Johonny

(20,851 posts)
4. His documents carry the message of the film but they're pretty much all BS so the message of the
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:54 AM
Apr 2016

film is BS. Meanwhile this will drive millions more to be spent AND wasted looking into vaccines in relation to autism which will do nothing to further childhood vaccination or autism. America we spend more on stupid and pretend to be an advanced society.

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