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From the Laetrile craze to the COVID-19 infodemic, the film explores how decades of institutional deception and corporate greed birthed a fatal era of science denial and fringe conspiracies.
Title: War on Science
Production year: 2021
Writer: Saskia de Boer
#Documentary #Medicine #Healthcare
War on Science traces the roots of modern medical distrust from the institutional betrayals of the 1970s through the Wakefield MMR-autism fraud, the tobacco industry's manufactured doubt, the opioid crisis, and the rise of social media echo chambers that transformed individual skepticism into a global movement. It examines a profound irony at the heart of the anti-vaccine phenomenon: that the very success of early vaccines erased public memory of the diseases they defeated, allowing fear of rare side effects to outgrow fear of the illnesses themselves.
As humanity enters an era of unprecedented scientific advancement, including mRNA technology, CRISPR gene editing, and AI-assisted medicine, can a society that has lost its shared sense of objective reality keep pace with the discoveries being made in its name? And when the gap between what science can offer and what the public is willing to accept continues to widen, who bears the consequences?
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From the Laetrile craze to the COVID-19 infodemic, the film explores how decades of institutional deception and corporate greed birthed a fatal era of science denial and fringe conspiracies.
Title: War on Science
Production year: 2021
Writer: Saskia de Boer
#Documentary #Medicine #Healthcare
War on Science traces the roots of modern medical distrust from the institutional betrayals of the 1970s through the Wakefield MMR-autism fraud, the tobacco industry's manufactured doubt, the opioid crisis, and the rise of social media echo chambers that transformed individual skepticism into a global movement. It examines a profound irony at the heart of the anti-vaccine phenomenon: that the very success of early vaccines erased public memory of the diseases they defeated, allowing fear of rare side effects to outgrow fear of the illnesses themselves.
As humanity enters an era of unprecedented scientific advancement, including mRNA technology, CRISPR gene editing, and AI-assisted medicine, can a society that has lost its shared sense of objective reality keep pace with the discoveries being made in its name? And when the gap between what science can offer and what the public is willing to accept continues to widen, who bears the consequences?
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