For those not aware, @TerryRossio is a highly successful screenwriter and producer. He's been nominated for an Oscar and has screenwriting credits for Aladdin, Shrek, and all five Pirates of the Caribbean films. 2/
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He also optioned Andrew Wakefield's 2010 book "Callous Disregard" with director and physician Dr. Jocelyn Stamat. There were stories about this in 2016, but I hadn't heard anything about it recently.https://variety.com/2016/film/news/callous-disregard-movie-vaxxed-1201762084/ …
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The most recent mention I saw of it was in June in this interview with Dr. Stamat about another of her efforts. 4/ https://www.thefourohfive.com/film/article/a-film-that-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers-is-a-great-film-meet-director-jocelyn-stamat-m-d-152 …
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And Mr. Rossio is doubling down in asserting equivalence between using the word "antivaxer" and using the "n-word." It's ahistorical offensive nonsense for more reasons than I can easily enumerate in a brief Tweetstorm. 5/
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However, to see a successful, privileged, wealthy white screenwriter seriously make such a comparison tells me all I need to know about the movie adaptation of "Callous Disregard" he and Stamat are working on. 6/
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If it's ever completed, the film version of "Callous Disregard" will almost certainly be hagiography of one Andrew Wakefield, the scientific fraud who almost single-handedly caused the resurgence of measles in the UK and elsewhere with his awful
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As for @terryrossio's equating using "antivaxer" to calling a black person the "n-word," that's just epically stupid. Being an antivaxer is a CHOICE, and calling someone out for his or her harmful CHOICES is justified. I doubt Mr. Rossio will understand that. 8/8
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oh. my. god.
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Woah! Woah! Woah! Has
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Gotta be pretty dumb to be unable to understand this graph.pic.twitter.com/9M1byuUGBu
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