Sorry, can’t find any better sources for this.
The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.
“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”
It is titled a portmanteau of ridiculous and religious. You went in for a serious take?
I knew going in it was going to be biased. That’s not my issue. It’s just a lack of really much of anything from him. It just felt like him going around being an asshole. That’s it. Granted, it’s been a lot time since it came out, but by the end all I could think was that he was just a dick. Hence the fact that there’s also a lot of other people who agree with him on things that also still think he’s a dick. Because he approaches everything like a dick.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I had pretty much the same experience with the film. I wasn’t expecting a scholarly investigation obviously, but I was hoping it would at least be funny (it wasn’t) and not mean-spirited (it was).