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For global immunisation and public health initiatives, they say that he did not shape the film's editorial content and any questions about its claims or messaging should be directed to the producers themselves.
Will that distancing be enough, do you think, Molly?
It's the context of this documentary that really matters, isn't it, Madeline?
Why has this vaccine debate become so tribal, so polarised that even someone just narrating a film can feel like they're choosing sides?
The US Food and Drug Administration, they're known as the FDA, they say that vaccines undergo rigorous testing to make sure that these products are safe, that they're pure before they ever even reach us or our bodies.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they say that infectious diseases are at an all-time low because of vaccines.
And also here in the UK, our National Health Service say that vaccines are the most efficacious
effective way to prevent many infectious disease and they warn against listening to misinformation on social media.
So when someone like Liam Neeson says lines like vaccines were dangerous experiments, is that distinction now almost impossible for audiences to make that he doesn't actually believe in that?
And Madeline, the promoters of this film, they are going very heavy on the fact that Liam Neeson himself is narrating it.
He's the most high profile person involved.
As we discussed earlier, he has that kind of iconic voice, or I should say he has a very particular set of skills.
Some people might disagree with the messages or the theories in this film but others will think okay well if the Liam Neeson is narrating this documentary it must be accurate and that it gives it a kind of legitimacy is that something that we're hearing?
And, you know, Jenny McCarthy, for example, she has claimed in the past that vaccines caused her son's autism.
I remember during the COVID times, Novak Djokovic, the world famous tennis player, refusing the COVID jab.
He was deported from Australia and banned from the tournaments.
And it was interesting.
His framing of that choice was that it was bodily autonomy.
It was his personal belief.
And I think his reputation seemed to remain intact in the world of sport and tennis.