Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit, MD
Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit, MD
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Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information

Author: Paul A. Offit, MD

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/30/2019


Synopsis

Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. Amid this onslaught of spurious information, Americans are more confused than ever about what's good for them and what isn't.

In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation. For the past twenty years, Offit has been on the front lines in the fight for sound science and public heath. Stepping into the media spotlight as few scientists have done—such as being one of the first to speak out against conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism—he found himself in the crosshairs of powerful groups intent on promoting pseudoscience. Bad Advice discusses science and its adversaries: not just the manias stoked by slick charlatans and their miracle cures but also corrosive, dangerous ideologies such as Holocaust and climate-change denial.

About Paul A. Offit, MD

Paul A. Offit, MD, 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 Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure and Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction with Charlotte A. Moser.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeremy Perrault on November 07, 2024

4.5 ⭐️… Despite the excellent information and knowledge about the subject, Dr. Offit seems to continue his views on anti vaccine protestors. He has written a separate book for that, and I do not believe it needs to be extended here with the input of a few celebrities or even politicians. A fish is a......more

Goodreads review by Rennie on March 26, 2021

Good but not my fave of his so far. It strayed off topic a bit. Nevertheless, every topic he covers is an important one and I so love his message of the importance of scientists easing into the role of being “science communicators” - so to better help us non-sciencey types understand their research......more