Most documentaries have some issues, but the anti-vax "documentary" was complete propaganda with almost no real facts in it at all. I think they were looking at it as being a conversation piece, but once it was found out that this "documentary" was nothing more than fan fiction, they understood that it would make Tribecca look really bad to essentially support the lie that it was a documentary.
A good conversation has to be based on facts, not on a stream of lies and deception.
I don't think this necessarily fits the definition of censorship. Censorship requires the change to be about objectionable material. It does come down to exactly why the final decision to pull it was made, but if it was pulled simply to not spread false information. Stopping the spread of false information (a documentary claiming a debunked study to still hold) isn't censorship. It would be like saying printing a retraction is censorship.
I'm glad they pulled a movie made by that idiot scientist that started that damned anti vaxxer movement.
It's a documentary, documentaries are build around facts. This has been disproved so many times it's downright unbelievable people still buy into this.
Good on de niro to not allow misinformation to be spread. More people should do this.
It's good that he pulled it. ANY amount of credit this movement can get is bad.
Thats good, a documentary based on not only false claims but the works of a doctor who commited academic fraud in order to get the results he wanted from his research shouldn't have his propaganda shown period.
People knew the world was a sphere sometime around the 5th century. They even knew the exact circumference of the Earth by the middle ages.
The Earth being flat was not a hotly debated thing as far as human record and evidence suggests. It's kind of a myth the whole, "the Earth is flat! Burn the heretic!" thing.
Science is not vetted by art either.
The first author/"doctor" of the authism argument was convinced of falsifying his tests and is banished from doing medicine for how many years again ? Was it 15-20 ? No point giving screen time to those kind of "documents".
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It does not. But you can't try to overthrow it with believes and falsified tests. That's retarded.
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Not really a "censorship thing" more of a ....discredited scientist trying to show a film about the subject matter he was discredited for...then a private film festival saying," Wait...you are who now? Oh, your a discredited "loon"?...yeah, here is your film back...we are NOT showing that BS here...try youtube." thing
The film-maker has been discredited and committed fraud; he is a disgraced doctor. The anti-vaxxer "movement" he helped create is extremely harmful to public health. In this instance, I am perfectly OK with this film festival not giving them screentime. They can release it on the internet or hold their own screening instead.
This isn't just a matter of opinion or disagreement. There's no discussion or exchange of ideas to be had here, the man is simply a liar.
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Not to nit pick, but the world being round was a pretty well established thing for more than 2000 years. The Greeks proved it mathematically and that knowledge was never actually "lost".
I agree with you on principal though. No matter how much I may dislike what you say, I'll defend your right to say it.
In this case though, the festival does have the right to what they show. It's kind of like if a western movie festival didn't want to screen the ridiculous 9...or whatever that last Adam Sandler movie was. They're not being antisemetic, they're just choosing to not show a bad film. The anti vaccine thing was made, so the right to free speech was not infringed upon, but it just looks like not a lot of people are interested in hearing what an asshat who turned his rival (and late) patent for a measles vaccine into one of the greatest harmful and persisting myth regarding modern medicine.
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