Robert De Niro Defends “Personal” Decision To Screen Anti-Vaccination Docu At Tribeca Film Fest As Protests Mount
Grande! Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro today took direct responsibility for the fest’s world-premiere screening of Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe, a documentary about a purported link between the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine and an uptick in autism. That claim has been widely discredited in the medical community. The controversy has provoked angry…