Via Audio. I do wonder if I would feel differently if I had read this instead of listened to it. But overall, I think now. 1. Don't title it Sense and Nonsense if you are just making a case against it. Trust your readers and be honest with them. 2. If you are against it, especially so veheme...
Offit gives straightforward arguments debunking celebrity quackery and peppers the text with interesting quotes. He does seem to have some empathy for families of autistic children and people with a cancer diagnosis like Billie Bainbridge. However, I have some bones to pick with Offit as his un...
Whenever I see people like Barbara Fisher and Jenny McCarthy on TV, my faith in the intelligence of Homo sapiens sapiens breaks down a little. It's tragic that these anti vaccine people have absolutely no idea of how a vaccine works and how much evidence exists pointing towards their safety. McCa...
As a pediatrician I am honestly getting exhausted trying to argue good basic science against celebrities, the media and a culture where people feel the internet teaches them the equivalent of my degree. Paul Offit spells out all the arguments clearly and succinctly. If you don't believe that vacc...
Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same. Born into the life of a Montana chicken farmer, Hilleman ran off to th...
MAURICE HILLEMAN In 1984 researchers at the CDC published a paper titled “Cluster of Cases of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): Patients Linked by Sexual Contact.” AIDS, a syndrome that included unusual infections and cancers, was sweeping across the country. Thousands had been infe...
