Paul A. Offit, Author . Yale Univ. $27.50 (238p) ISBN 978-0-300-10864-4
After a wave of books celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, Offit's troubling account is the first to focus on a largely forgotten aspect—one with negative repercussions 50 years later. In a nuanced...
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Paul A. Offit, Author Columbia University Press $24.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-231-14636-4
Attempting to answer the enormous frustration and unhappiness of parents ""tired of watching their autistic children improve at rates so slow it's hard to tell if they are improving at all,"" pediatrics professor and vaccine researcher Offit...
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Paul A. Offit, M.D., Basic, $27.50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-465-02149-9
In the second book this season (after journalist Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus) to attack vaccine paranoia, Offit—who drew antivaccinist fire for Autism's False Prophets—presents a smart, hard-hitting exposé of vaccine pseudoscience. Offit brings...
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Paul A. Offit. Harper, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-222296-1
According to infectious disease specialist Offit (Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure), half of Americans believe in the “magic” of alternative medicine, fueling a $34 billion-a-year business that offers...
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