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Injecting trust into vaccines

Jeff Thomas1

BOOK REVIEWEDAutism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

by Paul A. Offit

Columbia University Press: 2008. 328 pp. $24.95, £14.95

Paul Offit's distinguished academic credentials and long-standing advocacy for vaccines in the United States provide the weight behind this forceful book. Autism's False Prophets focuses on the people and events in that country that were central to the claimed link between vaccination and autism.