The Resource 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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The item The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines, Brian Deer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 394 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781421438009
- Label
- The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines
- Title
- The doctor who fooled the world
- Title remainder
- science, deception, and the war on vaccines
- Statement of responsibility
- Brian Deer
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Deer, Brian
- Dewey number
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- 610.92
- B
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Wakefield, Andrew J
- Anti-vaccination movement
- Physicians
- Disinformation
- Anti-vaccination movement
- Disinformation
- Physicians
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines, Brian Deer
- 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
- Control code
- on1111787151
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 394 pages
- Isbn
- 9781421438009
- Lccn
- 2019033966
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1111787151
- Label
- The doctor who fooled the world : science, deception, and the war on vaccines, Brian Deer
- 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
- Control code
- on1111787151
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 394 pages
- Isbn
- 9781421438009
- Lccn
- 2019033966
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1111787151
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