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Paul A. Offit
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“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
“On January 18, 1897, Indiana state representative Taylor I. Record argued in favor of changing the value of pi. Pi, which can be rounded to 3.14159, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Tyler believed that the number was inconveniently long; in House Bill 246, he asked that it be rounded up to 3.2. The bill passed the House but was defeated in the Senate when the chairman of Purdue University’s math department successfully pleaded that it would make Indiana a national laughingstock. The value of pi in Indiana remains the same as in every other state.”
― Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
― Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
“Barbara Loe Fisher failed to note that many scientists before Wakefield had published papers proving the rare tragic consequences of vaccines without risking their career—for example, William Sawyer, who showed that a yellow fever vaccine had been contaminated with hepatitis B virus; Neil Nathanson, who showed that a polio vaccine wasn’t properly inactivated, causing children to become paralyzed and die; and Trudy Murphy, who showed that an early rotavirus vaccine caused intestinal blockage, killing one child. Scientists and public health officials didn’t marginalize Wakefield because he had challenged the belief that vaccines are absolutely safe; they did it because he was wrong—clearly and inescapably wrong.”
― Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
― Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
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