He would have serious difficulty getting a real, well - paying job given his history, so he needs to stay at the top of the anti-vax heap to keep getting decent speaker's fees, book sales, and
possibly paid gigs at various anti-vax orgs.
He had recently left part - time, clearly temporary
gigs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and SnagFilms («They're
paying me to learn about VOD,» he said gleefully about the latter) to head the San Francisco Film Society, as close as he could
possibly come to his dream of running a repertory theater somewhere outside New York that would become a destination for people like himself who could never get enough of the movies.