A review by akizato
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's war on vaccines by Brian Deer

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.75

A super informative read on the MMR scandal and the origins of the modern anti-vax movement. Brian Deer does an incredible job at breaking down his lengthy investigation of the main players and keeps the tension up throughout. My only problem (causing me to dock a half star) is the way he sometimes described the villains of the piece, which often relied on fatphobia and the whole "ugly=evil" trope, and sometimes veered into outright sexist tropes (the way he describes some of the antivax ladies as the attractive, almost "temptress", stereotype really rubbed me the wrong way in a few places, compared to how he describes women on the side of truth). But overall a really good read. 
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