Brian Deer's 2020 book "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines" chronicles Deer's exposition of the MMR/autism fraud that Andrew Wakefield perpetrated. In this comprehensive Q&A, Brian Deer talks about red flags he noticed right away; exposing the multiple layers of the fraud; how the case series passed review and was published in the Lancet; the media falling for the hoax; the vulnerability of parents with severely challenged children; and much more. This episode may be view on youtube here.
"The Doctor Who Fooled the World" was an Amazon best seller and received the Gold Award in the 2021 Independent Book Publisher Awards and the 2021 Eric Hoffer award for nonfiction. Brian Deer is a veteran British investigative journalist for the Sunday Times of London, best known for his investigations into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues. He has twice been named the UK’s specialist reporter of the year, has received the annual Healthwatch Award; was the 2009 Susan B Meister lecturer in child health policy at the University of Michigan; the 2012 Distinguished Lecturer in Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; was made Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by York St. John University in 2016; has written six articles for the BMJ; and produced a documentary for British PBS Channel 4.
