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Zusatztext The author's droll account of attempts to inform the public about vaccines and even before a congressional hearing make for compelling reading....Recommended Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
