The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines / Brian Deer.
The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines / Brian Deer.
The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines / Brian Deer.
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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/3865
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English
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Physical content
viii, 394 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 -- U...
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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
2020.
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"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 r...
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The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines / Brian Deer.
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Includes index.
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©2020
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G 2020/3865
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74VKaMwW5g8Z
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ISBN
1421438003 hardcover
9781421438009 hardcover
DDC
610.92
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991024345798902626
