Introducing: Dr Anti-vax

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

16-10-2023 • 2 mins

Introducing Dr Anti-vax: the making of a modern panic


How did the anti-vax movement become so mainstream?


25 years ago, a British doctor Dr Andrew Wakefield sparked a global vaccine panic. Today, Alexi Mostrous, the reporter behind chart-topping hit podcasts Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed investigates how anti-vaxxers have gone from the fringes of public life to the centre of the culture wars that divide America and so many other countries, and the beguiling fall and rise of the man who started it all.


Episode 1 goes live on Tuesday 24th October and all three episodes will be available to Tortoise members on the free Tortoise audio app, and subscribers to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.


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