 Front cover of first edition | |
| Author | Paul Offit |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Autism and vaccine controversy |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Publication date | September 5, 2008 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 328 (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-231-14636-4 |
| OCLC | 221961980 |
| 618.92/85882 22 | |
| LC Class | RJ506.A9 O34 2008 |
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure is a 2008 book by Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The book focuses on the controversy surrounding the now discredited link between vaccines and autism. The scientific consensus is that no convincing scientific evidence supports these claims,[1][2] and a 2011 journal article described the vaccine-autism connection as "the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years".[3]
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- ^ Doja A, Roberts W (2006). "Immunizations and autism: a review of the literature". Can J Neurol Sci. 33 (4): 341–6. doi:10.1017/s031716710000528x. PMID 17168158.
- ^ Flaherty DK (October 2011). "The Vaccine-autism Connection: A Public Health Crisis Caused by Unethical Medical Practices and Fraudulent Science". Ann Pharmacother. 45 (10): 1302–4. doi:10.1345/aph.1Q318. PMID 21917556. S2CID 39479569.