502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Philosophy, and more.
502 Conversations - Science, Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Philosophy, and more.
Brian Kerby
Dr. Paul Offit from CSICON 2016
16 minutes Posted Jan 25, 2022 at 8:04 pm.
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Recorded at CSICON 2016, Brian Kerby Q&A's with Dr. Paul Offit about vaccines, measles outbreaks, the false link between MMR and autism, how much damage the Lancet publication of the Wakefield paper did, the history of the anti-vaccination movement, vaccine religious exemptions and child neglect, and more. Dr. Offit is a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with saving hundreds of lives every day. This episode may also be viewed on youtube.