The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines

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Product Description Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. "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 Review "It's a remarkable story and this is a remarkable book ... helping to explain the political and social predicament that now afflicts so many of us -- the crisis in truth and its exploitation by people without scruple." -- David Aaronovitch, The Times of London. Book of the Week. Books of the Year, 2020. "Riveting ... a compelling portrait of hubris and the terrible dark shadow it can cast." -- Saad B. Omer, Nature. "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." -- Michael Shermer, The Wall Street Journal. "This riveting history of Andrew Wakefield's career as an advocate for the discredited link between the measles vaccine and autism serves as a stirring demonstration of the process and power of investigative journalism." -- Publishers Weekly. "Mind-boggling ... Every chapter drops your jaw." -- Derek Beres, The Big Think. "Although many people think they know this now-infamous story, it is likely they are unaware of all its dramatic details." -- Paul Offit, MD, Science. "This stunning work sounds an urgent message and demonstrates the essential role of investigative journalism in uncovering the truth." -- Kristen Rabe, Foreward Reviews. "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." -- Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times Magazine. "With the meticulousness of a journalist determined to find out the truth and the pulse-pounding pacing of a thriller, The Doctor Who Fooled the World is a profoundly important book." -- Steve Silberman, author, Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. "Deer's book is a compelling reminder of what great investigative journalism looks like, and why it matters." -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director, the Annenberg Public Policy Center. "A magnificent book. Too few people know how greed and deceit conspired to create the myth that vaccines cause autism. Only Brian Deer can tell that whole story, because he uncovered all of its chilling twists and turns." -- Ivan Oransky, MD, president, the Association of Health Care Journalists, co-founder, Retraction Watch. "Brian Deer's definitive account of Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent attempt to link the onset of autism in children with the MMR vaccine could not be better timed ... gripping." -- Domin