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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines is a 2020 non-fiction book by Brian Deer, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It is about Andrew Wakefield and the Lancet MMR autism fraud case.
This was simultaneously published in the United Kingdom and Australasia by Scribe.
The book has a section explaining scientific terminology. The book is aimed at varying groups of readers.
Reception
The Times Book of the Week columnist David Aaronovitch wrote, "This is 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."
Reviewing for the leading science journal Nature, Saad Omer praised the book as "riveting… a compelling portrait of hubris and the terrible dark shadow it can cast."
Among other reviews, Michael Shermer in The Wall Street Journal wrote, "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."
Reviewer Peter Lindsay wrote that "This book needs to be read widely".
The magazine Publishers Weekly wrote that the work in all is "a good debunking" that is "riveting" as well as having a text that is "logical, exciting, and enraging".
Big Think website said, "Every chapter drops your jaw".
According to Foreword Reviews, "This stunning work sounds an urgent message and demonstrates the essential role of investigative journalism in uncovering the truth."
See also
Measles resurgence in the United States
Vaccines and autism
Vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine misinformation
References
Further reading
Nyberg, David (2022). "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines". Journal of Medical Regulation. 108 (2): 34–35. doi:10.30770/2572-1852-108.2.34.
External links
The Doctor Who Fooled the World - Johns Hopkins University Press
The Doctor Who Fooled the World - Available at Project MUSE
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