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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Gail Ross for helping me see the forest through the trees; Gail Winston for her wisdom, humor, medical perspective, and deft editorial hand; Erica DeWald for her research assistance; Peter Adamson, Jeff Bergelson, Sarah Erush, Melissa Ketunuti, Grace Lee, Dan Lee, Ed Milder, Juliette Milder, Phyllis Milder, Charlotte Moser, Bonnie Offit, Emily Offit, Don Mitchell, Anne Reilly, Jason Schwartz, Kirsten Thistle, and Trine Tsouderos for their careful reading of the manuscript; and Peter Adamson, Carol Baker, Stephen Barrett, Art Caplan, Anne Gershon, Jeanine Graf, Peter Barton Hutt, John Maris, Emily Rosa, Linda Rosa, Larry Sarner, Gene Shapiro, and Alison Singer for their expertise.
About the Author
DR PAUL OFFIT is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, as well as the acclaimed author of Autism’s False Prophets, Vaccinated, and Deadly Choices.
www.paul-offit.com
Also by Dr Paul Offit
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases
The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
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