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Kurt Eichenwald is a journalist and author of The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement.

How one doctor’s medical fraud launched today’s deadly anti-vax movement

Kurt Eichenwald
Conditions
April 17, 2021

An excerpt from The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement.

Inside the Royal Free Hospital in London, scores of reporters, physicians, and hangers-on packed the Atrium conference room, waiting for a press briefing to begin for five medical specialists who would deliver what would prove to be a historic—and dangerous—announcement.

It was February …

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How one doctor’s medical fraud launched today’s deadly anti-vax movement

What the medical profession can learn from this patient

Kurt Eichenwald
Patient
October 16, 2018


A excerpt from A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir. Copyright © 2018 by Kurt Eichenwald. Published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

I awoke in pain. Sometime during a seizure, I had fallen down the stairs outside of …

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