The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines

Title
The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines

Author
Deer, Brian, author.

Publication Date
2020

Publication Information
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
 
©2020

Physical Description
viii, 394 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN
9781421438009

Abstract
"Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor, has been a leading proponent of the discredited view that vaccines cause autism. The discrediting of Wakefield and the anti-vax position he propelled is due largely to the work of Brian Deer, an investigative reporter from the United Kingdom. In this book Deer tells the story of how Wakefield fabricated research results for his Lancet paper, failed to disclose financial conflicts of interest, manipulated researchers and parents, and lied to the public"-- Provided by publisher.

General Note
Includes index.

Personal Subject
Wakefield, Andrew J.

Subject Term
Anti-vaccination movement -- History.
 
Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
 
Disinformation.

Language
English


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