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Cargando... The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines (2020 original; edición 2020)por Brian Deer (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. difficult to keep the story elements straight but enjoyable to see justice served. ( ) The reporter who broke a lot of stories about Andrew Wakefield’s anti-vaccine hoax writes a more comprehensive history of the man, though he never gets very close and the chronology is patchy. I would have liked more about the science and how it was faked/manipulated and a bit less blow by blow of various hearings. Medical non-fiction is a busman’s holiday for me, but I do enjoy this genre so much! (It’s okay, you can call me weird). Generally I read about discoveries leading to the greater good, but The Doctor Who Fooled the World is the opposite. It’s investigative journalism at its best and medical research at its worst. This is the story of Andrew Wakefield, a doctor in England who wrote about a link between measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, inflammatory bowel symptoms and autism in children. Further studies found links between autism and the MMR vaccine, which led to a panic in the UK and later in America. Vaccination rates decreased in children. Parents of children with autism began to consider the timing of symptoms with vaccination and felt guilt at how they may have changed the course of their child’s life. It was a worrying time for many. But behind the press conferences and papers, there was a lot more going on. The seminal study wasn’t random in its selection of patients. Rather it was part of a lawsuit which Wakefield received money to research the link. Results were massaged to fit the hypothesis. There was scandal when it was discovered. Brian Deer introduces the story by telling the reader what happened from Wakefield’s perspective – the lead up, the research and the subsequent panic – but also points out the faults along the way. Quite a lot of this section of the narrative is peppered with digs at the medical profession and medical research, some not so worthy in my opinion. (I don’t know anyone who measures their research in pages in a journal. Number of words of the article is immediately forgotten once the article is accepted in my experience.) This put me off a little but it seemed to tone down once Wakefield was exposed by Deer himself. This section explains the lengths Deer went to, including the incredible depths of his research, to show the flaws in the data that disproved the original claims about MMR. But Deer doesn’t end there, following Wakefield (now no longer a doctor in the UK) to America and his integration with the anti-vaccination movement. This was an eye-opener and something that I hadn’t really heard about. The Doctor Who Fooled the World is a fantastically detailed look at why we need investigative journalism and the global effect of misinformation. Deer details his years working on this case honestly, resulting in a story so big you’ll marvel at how it was allowed to happen. Thank you to Scribe for the copy of this book. My review is honest. http://samstillreading.wordpress.com sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: 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 Category. 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. 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. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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