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

Deer, Brian

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ISBN 10 : 1421438003 ISBN 13 : 9781421438009

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Deer is a multi-award-winning investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for the Sunday Times of London. briandeer.com @deerbrian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421438003
• ISBN 13: 9781421438009
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
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