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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
Jesus that took FOREVER to read.
While I want to thank Deer for his work, his research and investigating over the course of two decades, this is not the most accessible book for someone who is unfamiliar with the subject matter. I found a lot of passages about the nitty gritty of biology to be confusing and not explained at all.
While I want to thank Deer for his work, his research and investigating over the course of two decades, this is not the most accessible book for someone who is unfamiliar with the subject matter. I found a lot of passages about the nitty gritty of biology to be confusing and not explained at all.
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A very important read, and impressive work put in by Brian Deer
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The Doctor Who Fooled The World by Brian Deer--This largely unprecedented examination of what be of the most miscited studies in medical history is jaw-dropping yet matter of fact both in scope and in what it reveals. Deer has been on the medical investigative journalism beat for years, uncovering stories about Big Pharma and biotech hucksters alike. But his examination of Andrew Wakefield and his infamous Lancet study claiming a link between the MMR vaccine regimen and autism is incredibly comprehensive. Deer exposes, for example, Wakefield's compromised approach from the start, which went carefully hidden for years. Deer writes with barely-contained disdain about Wakefield, who he views as intentionally and maliciously pulling the wool over desperate parents' eyes time and time again for decades, with Deer's conclusions, proven out time and time again in court, still explained away by Wakefield's most vocal champions. I knew from mainstream coverage of the Lancet study that the conclusions drawn from such a small sample size shouldn't be trusted, I didn't realize that they were so woefully compromised from the get-go. Very frankly, even the publication of this thorough a takedown of a figure who has proven to be extraordinarily litigious attempting to protect his fraudulent claims seems to demonstrate its own veracity. Thumbs up.
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Brian Deer is a tad smug but the book is absolutely compelling.
The comprehensive chronicle of Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent Lancet report. It's rough and depressing but compelling reading. Some of the details are amazing, in terrible ways.
My biggest complaint about this book is the author feels the need to describe how people look, which is not really a point of interest to me in a book like this.
My biggest complaint about this book is the author feels the need to describe how people look, which is not really a point of interest to me in a book like this.