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informative
sad
slow-paced
In some ways hard to rate this one. The subject matter is very interesting and extremely important. I wish everyone knew this information about how we got here with the anti-vax movement: a grifter with a series of accomplices motivated by greed manipulating a group of parents acting out of fear and desperation. Andrew Wakefield is a classic conman and should be in prison. But I wish this book had been written by someone else, maybe an experienced biographer or science non-fiction writer. Deer's prose is almost tabloid-like with multiple italicized words per page to drive home the DRAMA and SHOCK and weird physical descriptions of everyone that seem unprofessional and weirdly catty. Deer comes off as so, so smug. It's very off-putting.