Vaxxed Australia screening location being kept secret until two hours before start

THE location of an anti-vaccine film being shown for the first time in Melbourne won’t be revealed until two hours before it screens, as organisers try to avoid it being shut down.

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ORGANISERS have gone to extraordinary cloak and dagger measures to keep the Melbourne venue of a controversial anti-vaccine documentary under wraps until the last moment before it screens.

It is believed this is the first time the 2016 film Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe is being publicly screened in Melbourne.

Ticket holders will be informed of the venue — somewhere in Melbourne’s east — via email two hours before it starts.

The Australian Vaccination-sceptics Network also hopes to have a presentation from two of the filmmakers who are expected to join the forum from the US via Skype.

They say the August 3 event will be held in either Bulleen, Balwyn North or East Kew.

Network president Tasha David said the exact venue of the screening was being kept under wraps because they were concerned about being pressured into not showing the film.

The film claims to expose evidence of a link discovered in 2004 between the Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism.

It claims a 2013 cover-up within the US Centre for Disease Control prevented the evidence being published.

But the makers of the documentary claim it is not anti-vaccine.

Professor Jim Buttery.

They say they want the US Congress to “investigate the CDC fraud” and that vaccines be classified as pharmaceutical drugs and be tested accordingly.

Vaxxed is a documentary film that compiles information and interviews a range of medical doctors, university professors and autism specialists, filmmakers claim.

They allege that vital evidence of the autism-vaccine link was destroyed at the CDC.

Professor Jim Buttery, the Monash Children’s Hospital Head of Infection and Immunity and the Victorian Immunisation Safety Service director, said the film lacked credibility.

“This is an anti-vaccination film directed by Andrew Wakefield, who was deregistered in the UK as a doctor due to ethical violations in the way he conducted his research into alleged associations between MMR vaccine and autism,” he said.

“This discredited alleged association has been completely debunked by multiple independent research studies, using multiple different research methods. It is clear that autism diagnosis rates have been rising in many developed countries. It is also clear that MMR vaccine is not the cause.”