Robert De Niro AGAIN questions vaccine safety and calls for an ‘independent commission’
Robert De Niro is again promoting the theory that there is a link between vaccines and autism.
‘Who settled it, how was it settled? Where is the science?’ the actor replied when asked by veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson about the overwhelming evidence that vaccines are safe, as revealed in an advance clip of Full Measure’s Sunday episode obtained by Page Six.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated definitively that vaccines do not cause autism.
But the ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement that De Niro increasingly associates with argues that there is a massive scientific cover-up and conspiracy hiding the dangers of vaccines.
The actor recently backed the anti-vaccination film ‘Vaxxed,’ which was last month pulled from a London theater over outcry from scientists.
He’s previously said that his own son’s onset of autism around the time of certain vaccinations led him to question vaccine safety.
‘Here’s what we have from all these studies, and here’s what they have. And so it seem’s like something’s not right,’ the said the actor in his latest interview.
‘I’m not anti-vaccine, I take vaccines all the time,’ De Niro clarified. ‘But there’s something wrong, it’s gotta be fixed.’
The two-time Academy Award winner also called for an ‘independent commission’ to investigate vaccine safety.
Earlier this week, he held a press conference in Washington, D.C. with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to offer a $100,000 reward for anyone who can offer ‘proof’ that vaccines are safe.
Kennedy has claimed he was invited by President Donald Trump to join a commission on vaccine safety, but a spokesperson later said that the discussion was preliminary.
Written by Keith Griffith for and published by The Daily Mail ~ February 18, 2017.
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