The Doctor Who Fooled the World
Author | : Brian Deer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 1925713687 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781925713688 |
Rating | : 4/5 (688 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Doctor Who Fooled the World written by Brian Deer and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning investigative journalist Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield, so-called 'father of the anti-vaccine movement', blamed for epidemics of fear, guilt, and disease that today circle the globe. As a doctor at a London medical school, in February 1998 Andrew Wakefield published explosive research in the Lancetmedical journal which terrified a generation of young parents. Claiming that the MMR vaccine given to millions of children caused autism, he triggered a crisis, with sickness and deaths, as immunisation rates plummeted. Brian Deer's landmark fifteen-year inquiry for The Sunday Times, Channel 4, and the British Medical Journalexposed the truth behind the now-ex-doctor's campaign: seeing him struck from the medical register, his research retracted, and his claims dubbed 'an elaborate fraud'. But today Wakefield is back: leading an international anti-vaccine crusade -- from Seattle to Sydney, São Paulo to Shanghai -- against one of medicine's greatest triumphs. The Doctor Who Fooled the Worldis a riveting detective story that penetrates layers of legal secrecy, medical confidentiality, business schemes, and smear campaigns to expose the scientific deception of our time.