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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines by Brian Deer
4 reviews
akizato's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.75
A super informative read on the MMR scandal and the origins of the modern anti-vax movement. Brian Deer does an incredible job at breaking down his lengthy investigation of the main players and keeps the tension up throughout. My only problem (causing me to dock a half star) is the way he sometimes described the villains of the piece, which often relied on fatphobia and the whole "ugly=evil" trope, and sometimes veered into outright sexist tropes (the way he describes some of the antivax ladies as the attractive, almost "temptress", stereotype really rubbed me the wrong way in a few places, compared to how he describes women on the side of truth). But overall a really good read.
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Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma
smallredboy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Holy shit this book is really good. Deer's prose grips you and pulls you right in with no stops or breaks; sometimes it's downright distressing, sometimes it's hilarious. He speaks from a place of knowledge and I loved reading this very detailed breakdown of the facts and how we got here, to the anti-vaccine crisis of today. Very good book.
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child death
render's review against another edition
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
What I wanted was Bad Blood, what I got was extremely British journo against the world. It's informative but very opinionated.
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma
abithereader's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma