Category: Health

Paul Offit’s article in the Huffington Post has already garnered a lot of attention and responses. In the post, Offit points to the outbreaks of measles and other diseases that have resulted from parents not vaccinating their children due to...

Today’s New York Times had an article about Dr. Paul Offit’s new book Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, and the frequently heated debate about the possible link between autism and vaccines. Dr....

“Sadly, even after all this, many parents still blame the vaccine. The big losers in this debate are the children who are not being vaccinated because of parental fears and are at risk of contracting serious—sometimes fatal—diseases.”—from the New York...

As has been widely reported in the New York Times and elsewhere, cases of measles are on the rise in the United States and throughout the world. The Times writes that “more people had measles infections in the first seven...

Last week, parents including those associated with the group Moms Against Mercury marched in Washington D. C. to express their concerns about the possible connection between vaccines and childhood autism. The parents are also troubled by the vaccine schedule which...