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Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician, and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. Dr. Offit is co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine RotoTeq, and is a member of VRPAC, the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Committee. He has published hundreds of papers in medical and scientific journals, and is author of 12 books including Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong; Bad Advice: Why Celebrities, Politicians and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information; Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine;Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes to Far; and his newest book is You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccinations, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation.

