The Greater Good

This movie wrote itself. Forgettable. So you anti-vaxxers know about how diseases and infections are transmitted, and how many people died over the last 500 years of infections, smallpox, scarlet fever, plague, pneumonia etc? Modern medicine has made great strides and we now (on average) live longer than ever. Are there people who would make money off medicine? Yes. Does this require a conspiracy? No. Just keep in mind big pharma make money and yet overall is helping. So get innoculations and also hold big pharma and government accountable. But if you think the answer is to not innoculate your kids, you are doing your children and other peoples children harm. If you want to help people, investigate the opioid industry. Incredibly, that now kills more people than alchohol or guns.

Just another example of how pseudo science is dressed up to look like science. No rational evidence is presented for the claims made in the film, just slickly produced emotional propaganda. Sure the families tear at the heart strings, exactly as intended, but few people with any scientific knowledge will swallow the message. The problem is that the public has forgotten what infectious disease can do to unprotected and vulnerable people. The film is without doubt well made and presented but that in itself cannot make up for the fact that it's message could lead to a further reduction in the rates of vaccination and as a consequence, an increase in death and disability especially among the young. Quote "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" Joseph Goebbels

My wife and I are in the middle of our research for vaccinations for our children. I came across this movie, and I purchased the five-day stream from their website, and we watched it tonight. It is high-quality and very engaging. Is this movie biased? Yes, it is. However, I also believe it is fair, especially compared to what is fed to us by politics and rich news channels. In the documentary, they present the opinions and thoughts of many different "camps." Unfortunately, those who simply ask for research are so quickly and unfairly placed into the "anti-vaccination camp." However, the main plea of this documentary is not "Stop the vaccinations!" It's "Give us the science, and give us the choice." It does not cram down your throat anti-vaccination propaganda. Instead, it begs for true science to be done so that all parents can make educated choices. Even three years after this movie was released, it is still popular. If true research and science were done, no matter what the conclusion, this movie would be stopped in its tracks. What makes this movie powerful and dangerous to vaccination companies is the emotionally- driven stories of three families. However, this film also gives a seemingly fair voice to the pro- vaccination people, including the presidents of vaccination companies and developers of vaccinations. Of course, we don't have everything they said when the cameras were rolling. Instead, we just have what the production company wanted us to hear. So, what does this mean? Watch this movie with your brain and not your heart. Understand that it was produced for those of us on the fence and is powerful enough to persuade us. I definitely recommend you watch it if you're researching this topic. Watch this movie in ADDITION to your research not AS your "research."

I have 4 kids, 2 grown, vaccinated & 2 younger who aren't. All the parents want:to haves studies done that ARE NOT being paid for by the drug companies that are making BILLIONS of dollars! Would someone please ask me and other parents of non vaccinated kids to be in a study to see how healthy they are? The oldest 2 with vaccines were sick all the time, on antibiotics at least 1 or more times per month. The youngest 2, who are 15 and 13, have NOT seen a doctor or antibiotic in over 6 yrs! All of their friends and cousins are vaccinated and are sick about every other month! To the person who said this DVD is wrong..Do some research, see what is in the vaccines, ask parents who have not vaccinated their kids.Do you work for a drug company, school system, or state agency (who has funds cut when they do not get the required % of kids vaccinated)? Yes, look it up, State agency's get their funding cut if they do not reach a high enough level of vaccinated kids. Vaccines are not held to the same standard as other drugs! Parents should have the right to informed information, that is not provided and paid for by the companies who are making BILLIONS every year! Also, you may want to look up info on a case in France, that held criminal charges against a drug company that produced the Hep B vaccine, after the government saw how many kids were being permanently damaged! You are uneducated or are making money on the drugs, otherwise you would realize that parents should have the same rights and studies done as you do before taking new drug prescribed to you by a doctor!

One of the saddest refuges of those wanting to make a buck off the backs of suffering parents, and the naive is the manipulative pseudo-science "debate" based on false equivalence.

This movie is the epitome of half-assing the science coupled with emotive pulling on the heart strings, coupled with "experts" who have no background or rationale in the area they are talking about. I can only assume they hoped if they showed you enough sad stories of parents and children with difficult medical issues you would forget about expecting some evidence, logic or a rational basis for their claims.

If you needed further evidence... the film-maker, Leslie Manookian Bradshaw, is a registered Homeopath. You know... that ridiculous non-medical treatment that claims the more you dilute something the more powerful it gets.... (I guess Dinosaur urine is the most powerful thing on the planet, then)... which was just classed as not a medical treatment by the FDA.

Don't waste your time.

Since I'm not going to waste my time with a breakdown of the various unfounded claims, if you want a more scientific and section by section refutation of this complete crock of a movie... You can find one at the "Science Based Medicine Blog".