| Description |
viii, 394 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Guinness moment -- It must be measles -- Quests collide -- The pilot study -- Child four -- A moral issue -- Everybody knows -- First contact -- The deal -- Trouble in the labs -- Spartanburg science -- Asked and answered -- Turn of the century -- On Capitol Hill -- Letting go -- The bridge -- Unblinded -- Assignment -- Cracking the Coombe -- The spoiler -- Texas -- Nothing as it seems -- Sesame street -- Enterocolitis -- We can reveal -- Cry smear -- "An elaborate fraud" -- Rock bottom -- Payback time -- Vaxxed -- Wakefield's world -- Cause and affect -- Epilogue: A wonderful doctor. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Wakefield, Andrew J.
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Anti-vaccination movement -- History.
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Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Disinformation.
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Anti-vaccination movement. (OCoLC)fst01982555
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Disinformation. (OCoLC)fst00895245
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Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781421438009 (hardcover) |
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1421438003 (hardcover) |
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9781421438016 (electronic book) |
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