When the screening was first scheduled, 72-year-old actor De Niro, who has a son with autism, said in a statement, “I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue”.
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The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival kicked off fashionably with the premiere of Andrew Rossi’s “The First Monday in May”, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the mounting of an ambitious fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the museum’s annual star-studded Met Gala.
Let’s just find out the truth.
Watch De Niro’s full Today show interview in the video below. “That’s all I wanted, was for the movie to be seen”. Rossi said that since the movie is deeply rooted in New York’s creative world “to launch at a festival that came into life in order to support that culture is very meaningful”.
Lawmakers have begun cracking down on parents who want to choose, saying these choices endanger not only the children not being vaccinated properly, but others in the community. “I’m not anti-vaccine, but I want safe vaccines”. The anti-vaccination film is billed as an investigation into a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that found the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine does not cause autism. Also, his medical license was revoked.
It’s about questioning how some people got autism, how the vaccines are unsafe if given to certain people – and nobody seems to want to address that, because it’s a closed issue. But it doesn’t seem to be because there are many people who say they saw their kid change overnight. “We just don’t want to be told what we can put in our movie theater”. To this day it remains one of the most quoted movies ever, in particular Travis Bickle’s scene where he confronts a would be target in the mirror uttering the memorable lines, “You talkin’ to me?”
So now, as De Niro promotes his new documentary called Vaxxed, scientists worry that his comments on the Today Show will create unnecessary fear and confusion among parents. I don’t remember. My child is autistic and every kid is different. “But there is something there that people aren’t addressing, and for me to get so upset here today – on the Today show, with you guys – means that there’s something there”.
The actor did not specify which type of vaccination Elliot was given, or at what age.
De Niro’s return to the vaccines-cause-autism conflict threatened to upstage his latest honor.
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Scores of studies have been done to address these questions, even over the objections of doctors who say the questions have been asked and answered. The program doesn’t say how many of those claims were actually allowed.
