Virulent: The Vaccine War

Explores the highly contentious, emotionally fraught firestorm surrounding vaccines, charting the collision between scientists and charlatans, truth and lies.

We put a human face on scientists and others in the trenches including:

• Dr. Paul Offit, one of the world’s preeminent virologists and the project’s medical advisor
• Dr. Peter Salk, polio inventor Dr. Jonas Salk’s public health expert son
• Arthur Caplan, PhD, who founded NYU’s Division of Medical Ethics
• Kevin Roose, the NY Times columnist who writes about how disinformation spreads online
• Ethan Lindenberger, the student activist who had himself vaccinated against his parents’ wishes.

The film also shines a harsh spotlight on leaders of the anti-vaccine movement including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who disseminates bad science to Black Americans who hold the Kennedy name in high esteem.

Virulent: The Vaccine War is an invitation to think again, exposing the myths and laying bare the facts about vaccine science, its history and what it will take to eradicate the world’s most deadly diseases.

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