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Doctor Who Fooled the World:

Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines
  • ISBN-13: 9781421438009
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Brian Deer
  • Price: AUD $72.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
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  • Local release date: 04/05/2021
  • Format: Hardback (233.00mm X 157.00mm) 408 pages Weight: 680g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published a scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lancet, that struck at the peace of young families everywhere. Researching twelve developmentally challenged children, he claimed to have found evidence that the lifesaving three-in-one vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella, MMR, caused a frightening ""new syndrome"" of autism and bowel disease. Parents were terrified, vaccination rates plummeted, and Wakefield emerged as a charismatic crusader, exporting epidemics of fear, guilt, and infectious disease to the United States and then the world. Turning his attention to all vaccines, he now leads a campaign against immunization with tens of thousands of supporters.

In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, Brian Deer, the man whose fearless reporting over more than a decade nailed the truth about Wakefield, cuts to the heart of the most damaging medical conspiracy of our time. In this page-turning true story, Deer reveals how Wakefield engineered the greatest public health crisis since the early years of AIDS. Laying bare rigged research, secret business schemes, and financial and commercial conflicts of interest, Deer unravels a shocking web of deceit. At the same time, he fights off lawsuits and smear campaigns to plot the chain of causality behind the now-discredited doctors rise to influence. The only journalist to crack Wakefields secrets, Deer explains how he gained legal access to patients records, uncovering the truth about their histories and diagnoses, ultimately securing the papers retraction. ""Many people have had papers in the Lancet,"" Deer writes. ""I have had one out.""

 

Presenting readers with harrowing portraits of children with autism, as well as the stories of parents desperately questing for answers, this is, above all, a human story of ambition gone wrong. A riveting exercise in old-school journalism, The Doctor Who Fooled the World is also a tale of one mans pursuit of greatness, thwarted when the facts dont fit.

 

Prologue: ResurrectionBig Ideas1. The Guinness Moment2. It Must Be Measles3. Quests Collide4. The Pilot Study5. Child Four6. A Moral IssueSecret Schemes7. Everybody Knows8. First Contact9. The Deal10. Trouble in the Labs11. Spartanburg Science12. Asked and Answered13. Turn of the Century14. On Capitol Hill15. Letting Go16. The Bridge17. UnblindedExposed18. Assignment19. Cracking the Coombe20. The Spoiler21. Texas22. Nothing As It Seems23. Sesame Street24. Enterocolitis25. We Can Reveal26. Cry Smear27. ""An Elaborate Fraud""Avenged28. Rock Bottom29. Payback Time30. Vaxxed31. Wakefields World32. Cause and AffectEpilogue: A Wonderful Doctor

 

Riveting... Readers who love a good debunking will find Deers narrative logical, exciting, and enraging.

— Publishers Weekly

Seldom has any new book been more timely than The Doctor Who Fooled the World At times the book reads more like a thriller than a journalistic investigation

— The Sunday Times

At a time when the World Health Organization lists vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten threats to global health, this stunning work sounds an urgent message and demonstrates the essential role of investigative journalism in uncovering the truth.

— Foreword Reviews

Exposing researchers who lie, cheat and fake their data often requires the work of courageous whistleblowers or tenacious investigative journalists. Enter Brian Deer, an award-winning reporter for the Sunday Times of London

— The Wall Street Journal

Although many people think they know this now-infamous story, it is likely they are unaware of all its dramatic details. Curious lay readers and vaccine experts alike are sure to learn something worthwhile from Deers well-chronicled account.

— Paul A. Offit— Science

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