The fall
A British doctor sparks a global health panic about the safety of vaccines. But even though his work is discredited, he lights a fire that becomes the modern anti-vax movement
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Dr Anti-vax
How did the anti-vax movement go from the fringes of public life to the centre of the culture wars that divide so many?
From the team behind Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed, Tortoise’s latest investigation charts the disturbing fall and rise of Dr Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who sparked a global panic about vaccines 25 years ago.
Episodes
The rock star
Andrew Wakefield becomes a superstar thanks to the support of celebrities and an army of mothers – and establishes anti-vax as a moneymaker
The movement
Radicalised by Covid, the anti-vax movement goes mainstream – and RFK Jr emerges as a new figurehead