Use a waldo.

or a fist condom

Or a wrecking ball.

Meh. He's got an autistic kid and, in his own words, wants "a conversation around the issue" to be possible. I can understand that. And since he's got some film clout, he invited Andrew Wakefield's documentary to screen at his film festival. Here's his statement: “This is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening Vaxxed. I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue.”

But when push came to shove, that is, when someone sat him down and told him the story of Andrew Wakefield's falsification of evidence and bar from practising medicine, he reversed course and banned the bullshit documentary from the festival after all.

So, I give him a pass. It's difficult for a normal person working on second- and third-hand information to know at a glance what scientific snake oil looks like. There ARE cases of discredited medical theories struggling for decades before being accepted as the truth. This isn't one of them, but from a distance it looks like it easily could be. De Niro seems like his heart is in the right place and he's willing to be convinced by people who know what they're talking about. What more can you ask from an arts guy?

great points, i am slightly ashamed at my snark :(

Nah, as a default policy it is correct to mock millionaires. I just happened to have read this article a while back.