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- The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
summary
Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations.2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture CategoryFrom 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 children's shots.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.
Table of Contents
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- Prologue: Resurrection
- pp. 1-10
- Big Ideas
- 1. The Guinness Moment
- pp. 11-21
- 2. It Must Be Measles
- pp. 22-31
- 3. Quests Collide
- pp. 32-41
- 4. The Pilot Study
- pp. 42-50
- 5. Child Four
- pp. 51-60
- 6. A Moral Issue
- pp. 61-72
- Secret Schemes
- 7. Everybody Knows
- pp. 73-85
- 8. First Contact
- pp. 86-93
- 9. The Deal
- pp. 94-103
- 10. Trouble in the Labs
- pp. 104-112
- 11. Spartanburg Science
- pp. 113-122
- 12. Asked and Answered
- pp. 123-133
- 13. Turn of the Century
- pp. 134-145
- 14. On Capitol Hill
- pp. 146-155
- 15. Letting Go
- pp. 156-166
- 16. The Bridge
- pp. 167-176
- 17. Unblinded
- pp. 177-188
- Exposed
- 18. Assignment
- pp. 189-200
- 19. Cracking the Coombe
- pp. 201-210
- 20. The Spoiler
- pp. 211-222
- 22. Nothing As It Seems
- pp. 233-244
- 23. Sesame Street
- pp. 245-254
- 24. Enterocolitis
- pp. 255-267
- 25. We Can Reveal
- pp. 268-282
- 26. Cry Smear
- pp. 283-292
- 27. An Elaborate Fraud
- pp. 293-302
- Avenged
- 28. Rock Bottom
- pp. 303-314
- 29. Payback Time
- pp. 315-326
- 30. Vaxxed
- pp. 327-338
- 31. Wakefield’s World
- pp. 339-348
- 32. Cause and Affect
- pp. 349-360
- Epilogue: A Wonderful Doctor
- pp. 361-372
- Note to Readers
- pp. 379-380
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 381-386
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421438016
Related ISBN(s)
9781421438009
MARC Record
OCLC
1197681264
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2022-02-24
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2020