5.0

This is a really great in depth look at the motivations for and ramifications of the infamously long-debunked paper that popularized the narrative that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Similar to Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, the story unfolds like a hideously watchable trainwreck.

My only complaint-- and maybe I just wanted a slightly different book than what Brian Deer could produce-- was that I would have preferred a closer look at the way this scandal and its fallout has affected autistic people.