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Summary Who is the man behind the most highly controversial, intensely debated topics in modern medicine? In The Pathological Optimist, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical Journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has c...

Directed By: Miranda Bailey

The Pathological Optimist

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Summary Who is the man behind the most highly controversial, intensely debated topics in modern medicine? In The Pathological Optimist, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical Journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has c...

Directed By: Miranda Bailey

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Production Company Cold Iron Pictures
Release Date Sep 29, 2017
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline Liar. Healer. Monster. Savior.
Manhattan Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination