The Doctor Who Fooled the World
North America edition cover | |
| Author | Brian Deer |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | True crime |
| Published | September 2020 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardback and ebook |
| Pages | 394 |
| Awards | Eric Hoffer Book Award; Gold Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards |
| ISBN | 9781421438009 |
International Edition | |
| Author | Brian Deer |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | True crime |
| Published | September 2020 (Scribe Publications, London) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Paperback and ebook |
| Pages | 394 |
| ISBN | 9781911617808 |
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines is a 2020 non-fiction book by Brian Deer. Written in narrative style, it sets out Deer's investigation of Andrew Wakefield and the Lancet MMR autism fraud.
Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the book was simultaneously published in the United Kingdom and Australasia by Scribe with a different subtitle: "Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines".