{"product_id":"the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world-science-deception-and-the-war-on-vaccines-9781421438009","title":"The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eInvestigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health\/Medicine\/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003eBut why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Doctor Who Fooled the World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Deer\u003c\/b\u003e is a multi-award-winning investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eof London. briandeer.com @deerbrian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612477133074,"sku":"9781421438009","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27a855cd-c24e-457f-964f-e66e43789c90.jpg?v=1732374843","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world-science-deception-and-the-war-on-vaccines-9781421438009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}