Bad Faith Quotes

“Any group that allows children to die unnecessarily is sinister. And if these groups invoked the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster instead of God, their children would likely be put in foster care and their adults in an institution. But because they claim to act in the name of God, public officials often turn a blind eye. Another”
― Paul A. Offit, Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

“Almost two years after the outbreak in Philadelphia subsides, CDC investigators submit their final report. The Faith Tabernacle Congregation and the First-Century Gospel Church were at the center of an outbreak in Philadelphia that affected more than 1,400 people. Among church members, 486 people were infected and six were killed by measles. Among non-church members, 938 people were infected and three were killed. All nine fatalities were children. Because they hadn’t been vaccinated, the attack rate among church members was a thousand times higher than that in the surrounding community.”
― Paul A. Offit, Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

“died of AIDS as a consequence of his gay lifestyle.”
― Paul A Offit MD, Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

“It was in that way that she has best served God.”
― Paul A. Offit, Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine