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Robert De Niro Defends "Personal" Decision To Screen Anti-Vaccination Docu At Tribeca Film Fest As Protests Mount by Jeremy Gerard

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/rubela) vaccine and an uptick in autism. That claim has been widely discredited in the medical community. The controversy has provoked angry confrontations between those convinced of a…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26PM on March 25, 2016

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