There is a debate here about vaccines. As other reviewers note this is a documentary that just tries to present both sides of the issue. Pro vaccine and anti-vaccine. For example, they show scientists talk about how vaccines nearly exterminated polio in USA alongside other sicknesses making people live 30 years longer on average. A giant positive development. But then we get the other side: if vaccines did destroy extremely deadly diseases then we should stop vaccinating as they have done their job. Both sides get a say and the documentary moves on to the next topic about how some famous people like Jim Carrey claim some vaccines cause autism.
I would say it was a bit rushed as a point was made without the scientists getting a chance to respond directly. But on the other hand the counter-point was already made by them way earlier where they talked about how a virus could return and kill again if people didn't continue getting the vaccine in groups. And they do talk about herd immunity later on too. The pro vaccine voice is less direct, but clearly they get a say on everything.
They also show the Redskins cheerleader who claimed she couldn't walk forwards as she couldn't control her body. She could only walk backwards or run and then claimed it was because of a vaccine. There were times where she couldn't stand or even talk - according to what we see on camera. She is very attractive and became a media darling for the anti-vaxxers until a media channel followed her around in secret recording how she drove a car, shopped, played with her dogs. She was then dropped just as fast and then later studied for a biochemistry degree and now wants to work with developing vaccines as she now claims the former anti-vaxx claims are misguided. But still claims she was actually sick. Hard to really figure out why she still claims this as the things she experienced make zero medical sense.
The documentary does reveal its age as it's prior to Covid-19 and prior to much of this being uncovered with many of the anti-vaxxers being interviewed now out of the movement or even against it. Jim Carrey is now not a lead figure in the anti-vaxx movement while Robert DeNiro, Novak Djokovic, Nicki Minaj, Evangeline Lilly, Woody Harrelson, and Aaron Rodgers are lead voices for this as they were all uncovered post Covid-19. At any rate I think an anti-vaxx documentary would make sense in any decade. The movement is 100 times bigger today, but it changes from year to year. I just feel like it doesn't really say anything new. It's factual, yeah. But I see no reason to watch this if you are already pro vaccines as it won't really tell you anything new. Anti-vaxxers meanwhile will adore it for including them.
I would say it was a bit rushed as a point was made without the scientists getting a chance to respond directly. But on the other hand the counter-point was already made by them way earlier where they talked about how a virus could return and kill again if people didn't continue getting the vaccine in groups. And they do talk about herd immunity later on too. The pro vaccine voice is less direct, but clearly they get a say on everything.
They also show the Redskins cheerleader who claimed she couldn't walk forwards as she couldn't control her body. She could only walk backwards or run and then claimed it was because of a vaccine. There were times where she couldn't stand or even talk - according to what we see on camera. She is very attractive and became a media darling for the anti-vaxxers until a media channel followed her around in secret recording how she drove a car, shopped, played with her dogs. She was then dropped just as fast and then later studied for a biochemistry degree and now wants to work with developing vaccines as she now claims the former anti-vaxx claims are misguided. But still claims she was actually sick. Hard to really figure out why she still claims this as the things she experienced make zero medical sense.
The documentary does reveal its age as it's prior to Covid-19 and prior to much of this being uncovered with many of the anti-vaxxers being interviewed now out of the movement or even against it. Jim Carrey is now not a lead figure in the anti-vaxx movement while Robert DeNiro, Novak Djokovic, Nicki Minaj, Evangeline Lilly, Woody Harrelson, and Aaron Rodgers are lead voices for this as they were all uncovered post Covid-19. At any rate I think an anti-vaxx documentary would make sense in any decade. The movement is 100 times bigger today, but it changes from year to year. I just feel like it doesn't really say anything new. It's factual, yeah. But I see no reason to watch this if you are already pro vaccines as it won't really tell you anything new. Anti-vaxxers meanwhile will adore it for including them.