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我們這個時代的科學醜聞！ 「打了麻疹疫苗，小孩就會得自閉症」，讀完小報聳人聽聞標題的父母們，把寄來的免費疫苗丟進垃圾桶，拒絕帶孩子前往診所接種—— 一篇錯誤的論文，也能夠摧毀不止多少人對於醫療健康的信任，而這個代價，是整整一代小孩子的健康。 • 《紐約時報》描述威克菲爾德是「這個世代最被斥責的其中一位醫師」。《時代》雜誌則將他列為歷史上「最嚴重的科學詐欺犯」。《每日新聞》認為威克菲爾德「在世人面前蒙羞」，並且使用了以下的標題：連醫學之父希波克拉底都會噁心想吐！ • 這個故事的主角只有一個人跟一種疫苗，至少一開始是如此。但是，這個人與疫苗的故事解釋了多年來累積的力量，以及這股力量如何變形，開始攻擊所有的疫苗。這股力量吸收了其他人物，他們藉此在陽光下享受自己的名聲，也造就了一個陰謀，釋放恐懼、罪惡感，以及疾病，不只滲入新冠肺炎造成的大災難，也揭示了科學竟是如此容易遭到污染。 我在英國以外的地區演講討論關於此書的調查時，我通常以這個問題開場：「為什麼是我？」為什麼，舉例來說，巴西聖保羅或者西伯利亞佛伊弗迪納的聽眾，想要聽一位來自英格蘭倫敦的記者，探討一個從美國開始的重大國際醫學戰爭？我們很快就有了答案：因為英格蘭是這場戰爭的起源。英國是疫苗爭議的誕生地。長達四分之一世紀的時間，除了偶爾的「假釋」休息之外，我都一直都在追查後來被稱為「反疫苗運動」的運動，這個運動從英格蘭移民到美國，又從美國影響全世界。隨著新冠肺炎疫情爆發，這場運動也變得大規模了，時至今日，已經有無數的相關書籍出版，內容包括摘要研究、提供建議、告訴你什麼因素會導致問題、什麼因素又可以避免。這些書的作者通常都是疫苗開發人員，或者想要傳達某個使命。這本書不是其中之一。我也不是他們的一分子。我的書籍主題甚至不是關於疫苗。這本書的故事攸關一切的起源：我的調查揭露了在記憶中可以稱為「精心設計騙局」的起源，主角是誰（who）、他做了什麼事（what）、地點在何處（where），以及為什麼（why）。如果我錯了，我很歡迎有人糾正我，但就我所知，這本書是媒體記者調查醫學問題任何層面時，最深入廣泛的作品。我的起點是二〇〇三年九月，我接受《星期日泰晤士報》的例行指派任務，我堅持推出十餘則艱難的新聞報導、一小時的電視專訪、在頂尖醫學期刊發表五篇系列文章，隨後

From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned.And a militant "anti-vax" movement

By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, specimens, vaccines and iron lungs crossed over the Iron Curtain. Dóra Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. She argues that despite the antagonistic international atmosphere of the 1950s, spaces of transnational corporation between blocs emerged to tackle a common health crisis. At the same time, she shows that epidemic concepts and policies were influenced by the very Cold War rhetoric that medical and political cooperation transcended. This title is also available as Open Access.

By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, specimens, vaccines and iron lungs crossed over the Iron Curtain. Dóra Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. She argues that despite the antagonistic international atmosphere of the 1950s, spaces of transnational corporation between blocs emerged to tackle a common health crisis. At the same time, she shows that epidemic concepts and policies were influenced by the very Cold War rhetoric that medical and political cooperation transcended. This title is also available as Open Access.