Steve Silberman
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584 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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And so what Wakefield and the anti-vaxxers did was provide parents with a story.
And it was a story about the evils of big pharma and corrupt journalists and all this
And it was a very emotionally compelling story.
If you were a parent who was searching your three-year-old daughter's eyes for signs of eye contact, you very well might believe the story.
There was only one problem with the story.
It was false.
But somebody had to figure out why it was false and what really happened.
And so that's what I spent five years of my life doing.
yeah, I mean, I'll tell you a funny story.
You know, now I can laugh about it because it's over.
But basically what happened was, you know, I wrote a book proposal and my agent sold it to a publisher and the publisher expected that the book would take a year and a half to write.
That was my original deadline and would be maybe 200 pages.
Well, a year and a half in.
I had written maybe three quarters of the introduction and half of the first chapter.
And because I was a journalist who was used to, you know, really having to be very, very diligent about meeting deadlines, I felt like a total failure.
And eventually what happened was the book took five years to write.
I ended up handing in an 800-page manuscript.
And my publisher was very diced, but she was like,
You
I mean, it's like if we publish this at 800 pages, the people who most need to read it will never read it.
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