{"id":664170,"date":"2010-02-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/03e3703c4c2df5d0d35ccc283cec3a7e"},"modified":"2010-02-14T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T08:00:00","slug":"discussing-the-false-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664170","title":{"rendered":"Discussing the False Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/offit.jpg?resize=98%2C130\" width=\"98\" height=\"130\" \/>In light of the retraction of the infamous Lancet paper that first started the MMR panic, the <i>Point of Inquiry<\/i> podcast has a fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/paul_offit_the_costs_of_vaccine_denialism\/\">interview<\/a> with doctor and vaccine developer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Offit\">Paul Offit<\/a> who has received death threats for publicly refuting the spurious connection between childhood jabs and autism.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also the author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autism%27s_False_Prophets\">book<\/a> <i>Autism&#8217;s False Prophets<\/i> that traces the emergence of the vaccine protestors, the origin of their fears and the faulty thinking which has driven their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Offit reflects on the reaction to the book during to the interview and gives a coherent account of what conclusions we can and can&#8217;t draw from the science on how autism develops.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lively and important interview that is well worth 30 minutes of your time.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/paul_offit_the_costs_of_vaccine_denialism\/\">Link<\/A> to <i>Point of Inquiry<\/i> interview with Paul Offit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the retraction of the infamous Lancet paper that first started the MMR panic, the Point of Inquiry podcast has a fantastic interview with doctor and vaccine developer Paul Offit who has received death threats for publicly refuting the spurious connection between childhood jabs and autism. He&#8217;s also the author of the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MMq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}