![]() ![]() In The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, Seth Mnookin attempts to answer the question: Who decides which facts are true? Through interviews with parents, public-health professionals, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists, he researches how conspiracy theories are made, why they persist, and how we can find the truth with so much competing information.įrom anti-vaxxers to 9/11 conspiracy theorists to television hosts who demanded to see President Obama’s birth certificate, Mnookin explores the limits of rational thought and creates a cautionary tale for our time. As a result, parents became more and more suspicious of vaccines, and children unnecessarily died due to preventable diseases. Even though Wakefield’s research has been debunked several times over, he lost his medical license, and he has been revealed as a profiteer, powerful media personalities like Oprah and Jenny McCarthy spread his theory. ![]() In 1998, a British gastroenterologist named Andrew Wakefield published a paper that sparked one of today’s biggest conspiracy theories: Childhood vaccines cause autism. ![]()
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