Vaxxed tosses viewers headfirst into a make-believe land of lurid gibberish: In this sinister fantasy, no one is safe—for in Vaxxed, everyone from your family doctor to President Barack Obama is an agent in a conspiracy that targets the most vulnerable among us. However unbelievable its set-up, Vaxxed's creepily elaborate mythology is well-trod by Andrew Wakefield, the film's writer, director, producer, and star. Outside of Vaxxed, Wakefield is the former gastroenterologist whose medical license was revoked in 2010, shortly after medical journal the Lancet disavowed his fraudulent paper that suggested a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. But such is mere reality! To behold Wakefield in Vaxxed is to witness nothing less than a champion.

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