
Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
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Patrick Lawlor
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Paul A. Offit MD
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 20 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.
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"The author's rare storytelling...leads to an entertaining and captivating read that is hard to put down." (Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, Columbia University Medical Center)
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The scientific community did not help, in my opinion. All the talking I heard came from antivaxxers. From doctors? “Vaccines are safe. Do you want your child to die from a horrible disease? No? Then vaccinate.” I did not like being patronized at by the doctors. This made it very easy to fall in line with the people who looked like me, sounded like me, were parents like me, and said they cared about children.
This book has changed my mind. Offit is genuine, intelligent, clear spoken, and nicely intense in his desire to get his points across. Finally! An actual real human who admits that sometimes he makes mistakes and is not perfect, yet is educated and experienced in the subject he is talking about!
I learned a LOT from this book. Do you want your child to die from a horrible disease? No? Then don’t follow ANYONE blindly! Not me, not Offit, and not the antivaxxers. Do your research and use sources that have the studies to back it up! This book is an excellent starting point in that.
Powerful Book, Fact Filled and Interesting
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What a shame that the case must even be made.
One can hope that his experience and wisdom will help many to decide between the truths discovered by science, and the claptrap hawked by unqualified politicians, celebrities and opportunists.
Excellent!
Important
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Important and Engaging
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beautiful book
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kidding aside this was very good and I recommend it if you have read any of his other books!
great read!
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Eye opening
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Still great!
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Enlightening
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Content great
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Great book
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