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In reply to the discussion: Um…who the Hell green-lighted this picture??? [View all]proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)103. Jaw-dropping anecdote recounted here. Do your ideals still apply?
http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/12/safeminds-lyn-redwood-deafening-silence-the-systematic-censorship-of-the-truth-about-vaccines.html
Note: The article below is from our sponsor, Safeminds. Please join us in thanking Lyn Redwood for her tenure on IACC, where she fought for families facing all of the challenges of autism from vaccine induced cause through adult issues. She stepped down this year. If you're relatively new to Age of Autism and/or the vaccine injury community, please read Evidence of Harm by David Kirby to learn how Lyn Redwood, a nurse, set off the earliest alarm bells about mercury and vaccination, when doctors, scientists and governement watchdogs were oblivious.
Note: The article below is from our sponsor, Safeminds. Please join us in thanking Lyn Redwood for her tenure on IACC, where she fought for families facing all of the challenges of autism from vaccine induced cause through adult issues. She stepped down this year. If you're relatively new to Age of Autism and/or the vaccine injury community, please read Evidence of Harm by David Kirby to learn how Lyn Redwood, a nurse, set off the earliest alarm bells about mercury and vaccination, when doctors, scientists and governement watchdogs were oblivious.
December 10, 2014
By Lyn Redwood
Years ago I was interviewed for a news story regarding my sons mercury toxicity related to medications I received while I was pregnant and his exposure to mercury from his early infant vaccines.
The reporter did an extensive interview with my husband, who is a physician and myself, a registered nurse, at our home. The show was to include a review of my sons medical records. The television crew also interviewed several local experts for the report, which was scheduled as a hard-hitting three-part investigation regarding mercury and autism.
The promotions began airing the same morning that the first part of the series was scheduled to run. It was to be shown during the evening news.
By 2:00 p.m. that afternoon I received notification that the story had been pulled.
I was shocked.
This was my first time personally dealing with censorship by the media.
Unfortunately it was not my last.
Several years later I was approached by a movie production company that planned to produce a feature film based on David Kirbys best selling book Evidence of Harm. They wanted to use the personal story of my son as a major part of the movie.
But after purchasing the movie rights to the book and embarking on development of the script for 36 months, the production company decided not to move forward with production of the film. Insiders told us that external pressure from several high-profile individuals caused the production company to reconsider.
Shortly thereafter the production company partnered with CDC and made the movie Contagion, a medical thriller about a global pandemic.
Need I say more?
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So I wasnt surprised to see that journalist Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., who reports so meticulously and reasonably about vaccines that she has been criticized by both pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine camps, recently had her work censored.
When that TV show exposing the vaccine-autism link was pulled from the airwaves all those years ago, the censorship was so effective that no one knew what had happened or why.
The mainstream media had a stranglehold on what information reached the public.
Thats no longer the case...
Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist and Fulbright grantee. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine. She is the author/editor of five books, including The Business of Baby (Scribner), finalist for a Books For a Better Life Award, which will be published in paperback under the new title, Your Baby, Your Way. She has taught literature in inner city Atlanta; appeared live on prime-time TV in France; and worked on a child survival campaign in Niger. She lives in Oregon with her husband and four children.
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Maybe. Definitely didn't have a new leader wanting to throw his weight around. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#27
The theme of the movie is truly disgusting, no matter who the national leader targeted. No one wants
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#3
One of those guys was on The Daily Show, and I swear he has the most moronic laugh I have ever heard
Hekate
Dec 2014
#8
Yes, I just can't wait for the edgy new Hollywood offering where assassins from North Korea target
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#79
I doubt that it's any stupider than most of the comedies released these days.
NaturalHigh
Dec 2014
#15
Not just an all-purpose world leader: a NAMED world leader. It's as if someone made
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#88
Except the Brits made a film about asssassinating President GW Bush and we did tolerate it.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#145
It was very gracious of her to recognize they made a mistake, but to wait patiently for it to end
jberryhill
Dec 2014
#141
When I saw the previews, my first thought was: Well, this is going to make "The Blair witch project"
BlueJazz
Dec 2014
#32
Stupid Movie but...feels like some anonymous group is creating a chilling effect.
CincyDem
Dec 2014
#42
Blather... "by some anti-vax nutter..." Do you stand by that mischaracterization?
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2014
#153
Product loyalty is limitless and supersedes science (because none of it can possibly be reasonable)?
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2014
#155
'Noah', 'Godzilla', 'Men, Women & Children', 'Left Behind'. 'Atlas Shrugged Part III', 'Blended'
progressoid
Dec 2014
#52
As much as I think the idea of the movie is dumb, it was done about a decade ago....
LynneSin
Dec 2014
#59
I thought I was the only one who thought the plot was in very poor taste. Imagine if another
Stardust
Dec 2014
#65
Except the Brits made a film about asssassinating President GW Bush in 2006
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#146
You must be aware that N. Korea is a Nuclear Armed nation so what 'he' might do
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#81
No, we just have a media infiltrated by agents of the state and run by giant corporations
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#98
What a relief. I thought there was going to be a spoiler in this thread.
Baitball Blogger
Dec 2014
#77
How true and well stated ! And, what the hell has happened to James
Laura PourMeADrink
Dec 2014
#110
There have been many movies & books about assassinating real-life political leaders.
baldguy
Dec 2014
#120
It looks like it might be funny. You seem to be mad because Sony didn't call you
DesMoinesDem
Dec 2014
#143
And now we have allowed a foreign government to censor our entertainment industry.
stevenleser
Dec 2014
#144