IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 7, 2009
International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(5):1417-1419; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp267
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Autism's False Prophets. Paul Offit.
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Autism's False Prophets. Paul Offit. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 328, $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-231-14636-4.
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The author of this book, Dr Paul Offit, is the chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. These credentials are bulky but relevant, since professional standing is one of the criteria he uses in discussing the witnesses and often the co-investigators in his book. Indeed, the book—sub-titled ‘Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure’—draws on his remarkable breadth and depth of knowledge in an indictment of unsubstantiated claims about treatments and causes of autism.
To begin with, suitably, the author sets out his own background and potential biases: he is very much on the side of preserving those proven sources of child health that reside in vaccination. He has in fact been the target of hate mail and other kinds of
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