4.0

Before reading this book, I thought I couldn’t be less sympathetic to the anti-vax movement. Then I read this and realized it was somehow even more of a crock of shit than I had originally thought. It certainly didn’t help that Andrew Wakefield is a reprehensible person who somehow gets worse with everything you read about him. But a gastroenterologist who has no background in vaccines or autism trying to convince people that autism is a gastrointestinal disease brought on by the MMR vaccine is as completely ridiculous as it sounds. The amount of times I had to put down this book to rant about some nonsense to my girlfriend (who has a masters in public health and got me to read this book) was insane.

I really think that everyone who is even remotely against vaccines needs to read this, because any amount of critical thinking shows how much of this data was fabricated. It also outlines the major conflict of interest coming from the lawyer representing a class action suit against vaccines who was looking for a vast payout for his clients and himself. This whole story stinks of lying and corruption, so much so that it seems like it should be fiction.