When celebrity and science collide, harmful side effects may occur.
The latest case happened last weekend when the Tribeca Film Festival pulled a documentary from its program by a discredited former doctor whose research into the connection between vaccines and autism has been debunked. After festival co-founder Robert De Niro initially defended the film's inclusion, Tribeca - facing an uproar from doctors and experts - pulled it.
The film, "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," is directed by Andrew Wakefield, a former British . . .
