Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccination. “This is a remarkable book” — The Times. “Riveting” — Nature. 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 immunization. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. 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.
Brian Deer Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Brian Deer è un acclamato giornalista investigativo, noto per le sue approfondite inchieste sull'industria farmaceutica, la medicina e le pressanti questioni sociali. Il suo lavoro si distingue per una ricerca incessante della verità e un impegno nella correzione degli errori, affrontando temi complessi con chiarezza e impatto. L'approccio distintivo di Deer si basa su una ricerca meticolosa e un acuto senso delle falle sistemiche, che lo affermano come una voce significativa nel giornalismo d'impatto.
