The Pathological Optimist

2017
TV-14
1 Std. 33 Min.

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4,8/10

181

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Andrew Wakefield in The Pathological Optimist (2017)

In the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED: From Cover-up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease, and autism. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes us into the inner sanctum of Wakefield and his family from 2011- 2016 as he fights for his day in court in a little known defamation case against the British Medical Journal. Wakefield attempts to clear his name as the media-appointed Father of the Anti-vaccine movement. Director Miranda Bailey weaves a delicate portrait of a man who is THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST utilizing a never-before-seen, full access look at the man at the center of one of the biggest medical and media controversies of our times.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED: From Cover-up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license f... Alles lesenIn the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED: From Cover-up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease, and autism... Alles lesenIn the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED: From Cover-up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease, and autism. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes us into the inner sanctum of Wakefield and his family fr... Alles lesen

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1outoutpatient

Not a documentary, more of a puff piece

Wakefield is given all the space in the world to garner sympathy and espouse his unscientific ideas without anything close to resembling an examination from this woefully poor filmmaker. Don't waste your time on this tripe.

9albertminero30

A Must See Documentary

If a documentary's purpose is to inform and record the truth's of a subject. The Pathological Optimist gets deep into the soul and the truth of Andrew Wakefield. This documentary follows Wakefield through the aftereffect of his own documentary Vaxxed which alleged that certain vaccines could be giving children autism. Andrew must continuously take up and battle against all of his critiques to clear his name and restore his credibility. Wakefield may have one of the most interesting faces the screen has ever seen. It feels that with every word and sentence formed you are seeing the inner workings of a man who knows his truth and his purpose but yet may be conflicted. The Pathological Optimist gives you a wonderful look into a man who is searching for the truth in more ways than one. A Wonderful Documentary!

1melskaya

Wish I could give this a negative star...

This "documentary" (and I'm using that term very loosely here) is little more than an attempt at making Wakefield look sympathetic and misunderstood. Its completely biased towards Wakefield and I've done my own research into the article in BMJ, the study, the studies done into the MMR vaccine. He's an egocentric who fed the Kool-Aid to a bunch of people and the result was diseases like measles and mumps coming back and herd immunity disappearing. Lives are being lost because of this guy.

Anderson Cooper has a great clap at Wakefield. That was the best part of this... claptrap.

1judelrieu

A puff piece with a hidden agenda

I watched this out of curiosity, to see if the director *actually* tried to perform some sort of investigative documentary making around Wakefield dubious intentions and alarming practices.

But no.

Let's repeat this for gazillionth time : Vaccines. Do. Not. Cause. Autism. Snake oil doctors will prefer to continue to hustle to avoid jail.

I really hope none of the viewers will do anything to harm their children, blinded by the safety of a dwindling herd immunity. Stay safe folks and avoid proagandocumentaries !

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