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The discredited doctor hailed by the anti-vaccine movement

Riveting biography of Andrew Wakefield is a cautionary lesson in the legacy of hubris.
  1. Saad B. Omer

    1. Saad B. Omer is the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, a professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a professor of epidemiology of microbial diseases at Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s War on Vaccines Brian Deer Scribe UK (2020)

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Nature 586, 668-669 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02989-9

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