Claire Dooley
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Podcast Appearances
I'm sitting with Andy.
And I want to talk a little bit about, you know, it's been 10 years since this film was made.
Could you have ever known the impacts?
I mean, what was going through your minds as you were putting this film out?
Were you thinking, you know, no one's going to listen to this?
Is the public going to be receptive?
And then also in the wake of what is happening today, did you ever think that we would be where we are now?
If Andy, you want to start and then I'll come to you, Brian.
Film Festival known for?
What's the Tribeca Film Festival overall vibe?
What kind of films go through there?
Is it activist filmmaking?
And it's sickening because it's something that affects millions of children.
Brian, do you know any numbers on how many
If the CDC would have been forthcoming when they found that result, and Dr. Thompson told me, he'll never forget, it was November 7th, 2001, when that result first was analyzed and then told to senior CDC officials, then it would have prevented, in the timeline between that and the vax movie, it would have prevented a quarter of a million autism cases in African American males.
And that's a conservative figure.
And so that's like half of Sacramento, half of Austin, Texas.
And what kind of autism are we talking about?
We're not talking about a couple folks who are good at math or a little quirky.
Can you tell us about...