Being Frank
2019
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Sep 29, 2017 · The Pathological Optimist: Directed by Miranda Bailey. With Andrew Wakefield, Carmel Wakefield, Brendan McBride, William Parrish. 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 ...
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- Documentary, Biography
- Miranda Bailey
- 2017-09-29
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 Britain who currently resides in Austin ...
Sep 29, 2017 · The Pathological Optimist. Rent The Pathological Optimist on Fandango at Home, or buy it on Fandango at Home. A profile of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the man behind the anti-vaccination movement.
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- Andrew Wakefield, Polly Tommey
- Miranda Bailey
- Documentary, Biography
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.
- Miranda Bailey
- 93 min
- 23
Sep 29, 2017 · 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.”
- Miranda Bailey
- Andrew Wakefield
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 ...
