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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, And The Search For A Cure (2008)

by Paul A. Offit(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0231146361 (ISBN13: 9780231146364)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Columbia University Press

review 1: Jest mi bardzo przykro, że ta książka nie wyszła po polsku. Opowieści o cudownych terapiach na autyzm i "odkryciach" Wakefielda to jedno. Ale dla polskiego czytelnika śledzącego tutejsze dyskusje o morderczych szczepionkach najciekawsze będzie odkrycie, że narracja "szlachetni ekorodzice kontra wielkie korporacje" jest fałszywa; że histerię antyszczepionkową rozkręcali bogaci prawnicy, czasem za publiczne pieniądze, wspomagani przez firmy PR, stosując taktyki zaczerpnięte z kampanii zacierania związku między paleniem a rakiem płuc czy denializmu klimatycznego.
review 2: I found this book easy to read and full of facts (he has an extensive list of references in the back chapter-by-chapter). Offit does a fantastic job of explaining how the med... moreia, social, political and religious climates made the perfect storm for not trusting science. Of course pharmaceutical companies have made themselves easy to distrust with historically poor products, media campaigns and advertisements. He explains that for a lot of parents anecdotes go much farther than epidemiological studies (statistics) and that when they feel backed into a corner, anyone with a cure is appetizing. I appreciated his breadth of knowledge and detailed explanation of different studies and chronological organization of when these events occurred because I felt like I was reliving the whole movement. He explains the coincidence of developmental stages lining up with inoculation, so that a parent may observe oddities that are non-related to a vaccine. An aside - I saw a new study was published in Toronto today about catching autism during infancy by watching eye movements (or lack thereof). It seems to me that the evidence is overwhelming that vaccines have no link to autism if children are showing symptoms prior to the period in which inoculation begins. less

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