Autism's False Prophets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autism's False Prophets write by Paul A. Offit. This book was released on 2008-09-18. Autism's False Prophets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder. Consequently, a number of untested alternative therapies arose, and, most tragically, in one such treatment, a doctor injected a five-year-old autistic boy with a chemical in an effort to cleanse him of mercury, which stopped his heart instead. Children with autism have been placed on stringent diets, subjected to high-temperature saunas, bathed in magnetic clay, asked to swallow digestive enzymes and activated charcoal, and injected with various combinations of vitamins, minerals, and acids. Instead of helping, these therapies can hurt those who are most vulnerable, and particularly in the case of autism, they undermine childhood vaccination programs that have saved millions of lives. An overwhelming body of scientific evidence clearly shows that childhood vaccines are safe and does not cause autism. Yet widespread fear of vaccines on the part of parents persists. In this book, Paul A. Offit, a national expert on vaccines, challenges the modern-day false prophets who have so egregiously misled the public and exposes the opportunism of the lawyers, journalists, celebrities, and politicians who support them. Offit recounts the history of autism research and the exploitation of this tragic condition by advocates and zealots. He considers the manipulation of science in the popular media and the courtroom, and he explores why society is susceptible to the bad science and risky therapies put forward by many antivaccination activists.
Unstrange Minds
Unstrange Minds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unstrange Minds write by Roy Richard Grinker. This book was released on 2008-07-31. Unstrange Minds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A father's inspiring portrait of his daughter informs this classic reassessment of the "epidemic" of autism. When Isabel Grinker was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 3 of every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed. Some scientists reported rates as high as 1 in 150. The media had declared autism an epidemic. Unstrange Minds documents the global quest of Isabel's father, renowned anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker, to discover the surprising truth about why autism is so much more common today. In fact, there is no autism epidemic. Rather, we are experiencing an increase in autism diagnoses, and Grinker shows that the identification and treatment of autism depends on culture just as much as it does on science. Filled with moving stories and informed by the latest science, Unstrange Minds is a powerful testament to a father's search for the truth.
Deadly Choices
Deadly Choices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deadly Choices write by Paul A. Offit. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Deadly Choices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A renowned researcher vigorously challenges the anti-vaccine movement in this powerful defense of science in the face of fear.
Autism's False Prophets
Autism's False Prophets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autism's False Prophets write by Paul A. Offit. This book was released on 2008. Autism's False Prophets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the history of autism research and argues that the media and advocates have mislead the public in their declaration that childhood vaccinations are the cause of autism.
Do You Believe in Magic?
Do You Believe in Magic? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Do You Believe in Magic? write by Paul A. Offit, M.D.. This book was released on 2013-06-18. Do You Believe in Magic? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly. Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health. Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners. An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”
