Dr. Wakefield and the documentary, 'The Pathological Optimist'
Update: 2017-10-12
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Who is the man behind the most highly controversial, intensely debated topics in modern medicine? In THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has come to be known as “The Anti-Vax Movement.” An expat from Brittan currently residing in Austin, Texas, Wakefield allowed Bailey & her team to follow him & his family for 5 years beginning in 2011 as he fought a defamation battle in the courts against the British Medical Journal and journalist Brian Deer. The results of that case – & the self-reflection, pronouncements, & observations of Wakefield, his legal team, wife, & children – create a complex & incisive look at one of our era’s most fear-provoking & continuously provocative figures. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes no sides, instead letting Wakefield & the battles he fought speak for themselves.
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