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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines (English Edition) eBook Kindle
A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century.
The news breaks first as a tale of fear and pity. Doctors at a London hospital claim a link between autism and a vaccine given to millions of children: MMR. Young parents are terrified. Immunisation rates slump. And as a worldwide ‘anti-vax’ movement kicks off, old diseases return to sicken and kill.
But a veteran reporter isn’t so sure, and sets out on an epic investigation. Battling establishment cover-ups, smear campaigns, and gagging lawsuits, he exposes rigged research and secret schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific deception of our time.
Here’s the story of Andrew Wakefield: a man in search of greatness, who stakes his soul on big ideas that, if right, might transform lives. But when the facts don’t fit, he can’t face failure. He’ll do whatever it takes to succeed.
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IdiomaInglês
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EditoraScribe
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Data da publicação1 setembro 2020
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Tamanho do arquivo1849 KB
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Brian Deer is a veteran British investigative journalist, best known for his inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for the Sunday Times of London. Among his awards, Deer was twice named the UK’s specialist reporter of the year, and in 2016 he was made Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by York St. John University.
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- Editora : Scribe (1 setembro 2020)
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The fact that there is a Wakefield fraud story is well-known. The details I think are not so well known, and certainly weren’t to me. Brian Deer takes the reader through a chronological account of Wakefield’s life from his upbringing to his current situation. I think Brain was trying to shine a light into his background, trying to unpick the pathologies that lead to a health catastrophe that is still playing out over two decades later. In this he fails not because of lack of skill but because, to me, Wakefield’s motives for his sustained actions are simply incomprehensible and I don’t think any amount of explaining can illuminate.
The research is amazing – the depth of the evidence, who Brian managed to get on record, the compassion for the afflicted (but not by MMR) children. All these shine through, making it a very human book as well.
Even if the book was only a forensic demolition of Wakefield’s fraud it would be excellent. But it also works on another, more chilling level. A profound part of the book, and possibly one of the more important, was the chronicling of the start of social media as a tool for misinformation.
The book starts with Wakefield at a Trump inauguration event publishing on social media. This ties the start and end of the story together in a disquieting way. The events in the late 1990s and the ripples from the retracted and discredited Lancet MMR paper have borne rotten fruit in the present day. You can see the same lies being propagated over social media in relation to the COVID vaccines (and every other technical advance). The difference is in the 1990s there were gatekeepers and accountability and ultimately retraction. Now that the social media owners have renounced all responsibility for their creation, the poison flows unchecked and uncontrolled across the modern world. Wakefield, it turns out, was merely a harbinger, and later a midwife, of the misinformation age.