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Amazing work from Brian Deer. Would recommend this to everyone.
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Deer's writing style on immensely complicated topics is concise and flows well. The story he tells is infuriating, but his extremely British storytelling and style of humor keep it from dragging. I have indescribable hatred for Andrew Wakefield now.
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Thank you Brian Deer for the incredible work you did to bring this fraud to light, this book is a genuinely inspiring work.
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i thought this was raelly good while i was reading this, it was one of the rare nonfiction books i read and i came upon it after watching that youtube video about wakefield. so i was instilled with a blinding rage towards him and dumbfounded as to how this one evil man could be the figurehead of something so dramatic and pervasive. and harmful. questions running through my mind like: how is this guy not in jail?
now that i look back on it, there are a lot of things about this book thats sort of lowered my appreciation of it. of course deer did a phenomenal part of doggedly chasing someone so malignant and bringing him to justice (partially). deer does seem to paint himself as a vigilante. the "i told you so" tone gets overbearing at times. maybe he really was the lone ranger in all this, i dont know enough about what actually happened. whatever, it's a little corny, but i guess its warranted to an extent.
i owe this book and deer for introducing me to the world of nonfiction about medical scandals. there is a combination of morbid fascination, shock, and righteous anger that keeps you captivated. ill always feel weird no matter what by being an audience of the inevitable spectacle of stuff like this.
we can laugh at anti-vaxxers and the exiled former doctor peddling psuedoscience. but you have to remind yourself that there are sick people whove gotten even sicker, grieving families, wretched shills, out there in the real world.
now that i look back on it, there are a lot of things about this book thats sort of lowered my appreciation of it. of course deer did a phenomenal part of doggedly chasing someone so malignant and bringing him to justice (partially). deer does seem to paint himself as a vigilante. the "i told you so" tone gets overbearing at times. maybe he really was the lone ranger in all this, i dont know enough about what actually happened. whatever, it's a little corny, but i guess its warranted to an extent.
i owe this book and deer for introducing me to the world of nonfiction about medical scandals. there is a combination of morbid fascination, shock, and righteous anger that keeps you captivated. ill always feel weird no matter what by being an audience of the inevitable spectacle of stuff like this.
we can laugh at anti-vaxxers and the exiled former doctor peddling psuedoscience. but you have to remind yourself that there are sick people whove gotten even sicker, grieving families, wretched shills, out there in the real world.