Shoutout to Brian Deer for putting this documentary on his YouTube channel for free, and for doing such insane research and writing the craziest nonfiction book I have ever read. This past summer I read his book The Doctor Who Fooled the World, which details the MMR vaccine scandal and Andrew Wakefield's rise and fall in much more detail than a 50-minute documentary could ever hope to achieve, but this works as a pretty effective summary. I watched it with my parents, and I really don't think Fudenberg's bone marrow pills got the proper reaction from them. When I learned that shit I had to put the book down and yell "WHAT" into the void of my apartment because genuinely what the hell. I really enjoyed the footage of Wakefield practically sprinting away from the camera, and I have to imagine that his whatever office in America had a little photo of Deer in the break room with the caption "IF SEEN: PLAY DUMB."

Anyways, a must-see if you don't want to read a book. The book was better though.

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