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Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine.
“This is a remarkable book” – The Times
“Riveting” – Nature
From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant “anti-vax” movement has surfaced to campaign against immunization. But why?
In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid.
At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called “father of the anti-vaccine movement”: a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer’s discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a “war.”
In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.
2021 winner: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY), and 2021 Eric Hoffer Book Award
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (September 29, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 1421438003
ISBN-13 : 978-1421438009
Reading age : 18 years and up
Item Weight : 1.55 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.21 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book compelling and worth reading. They praise the well-researched and clear information about the MMR vaccine scare. However, opinions differ on the writing style – some find it engaging and easy to follow, while others find it unstructured and confusing.
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