Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 2018
224 pages
978-0-231-54693-5 (ISBN)
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Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any American disturbed by politicized attacks on science.
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Paul Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a BS in Psychology from Tufts University (1973) and an MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine (1977). He is the author of Autism's False Prophets (CUP 2008) and, most recently, Pandora's Lab (Nat Geo 2017).Paul A. Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning physician, coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and the author of several books on medical and scientific issues including, from Columbia University Press, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (2007) and Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction (2011, with Charlotte A. Moser).
Paul Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a BS in Psychology from Tufts University (1973) and an MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine (1977). He is the author of Autism's False Prophets (CUP 2008) and, most recently, Pandora's Lab (Nat Geo 2017).Paul A. Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning physician, coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and the author of several books on medical and scientific issues including, from Columbia University Press, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (2007) and Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction (2011, with Charlotte A. Moser).
Content
Prologue: On Being Naïve
1. What Science Is-and What It Isn't
2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms
3. An Alibi for Ignorance
4. Feeding the Beast
5. To Debate or Not to Debate
6. Make 'Em Laugh
7. Science Goes to the Movies
8. The Emperor's New Clothes
9. Judgment Day
10. The Nuclear Option
11. Pharma Shill
12. A Ray of Hope
Epilogue: The End of the Tour
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Blogs and Podcasts
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
1. What Science Is-and What It Isn't
2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms
3. An Alibi for Ignorance
4. Feeding the Beast
5. To Debate or Not to Debate
6. Make 'Em Laugh
7. Science Goes to the Movies
8. The Emperor's New Clothes
9. Judgment Day
10. The Nuclear Option
11. Pharma Shill
12. A Ray of Hope
Epilogue: The End of the Tour
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Blogs and Podcasts
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
