“In 1996, investigators from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle studied 18,000 people who, because they had been exposed to asbestos, were—like those who smoked cigarettes—also at greater risk of lung cancer. Participants were given large doses of… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“Mice lie and monkeys exaggerate,” says University of Pennsylvania vaccine researcher David Weiner.” — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children. — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing. — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“There is no proof that the groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or intellectual capacity or that there is any connection… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“Today, although the terms have changed, the concepts remain the same. Now the evils released from Pandora’s box have more specific names like pests,… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“The facts tell a very different story: (1) First-generation Mexican immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans; (2) as rates of immigration have increased, rates of crime have decreased; and (3) the percentage of illegal immigrants in prison is actually less than that in the general population. The reasons are obvious. Because they risk deportation, undocumented immigrants have a… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share
“Charles Davenport, who in a letter to Grant urged him to push forward on immigration restriction: “Can we build a wall high enough around this country so as to keep out these cheaper races; or will it be a feeble dam, leaving it to our descendants to abandon the country to blacks, browns, and yellows.” A hundred years later, Donald… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share
People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it. — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters. — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” said West, who was talking about sex, not vitamins.) Second,” — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
“I do not, of course, propose to neglect the sick, the feeble or the unfortunate,” wrote Galton, “but I would exact an equivalent for the charitable assistance they receive by preventing the more faulty members of the flock from breeding.” Galton argued that lunatics, criminals, and paupers should be placed in monasteries and convents “for the purpose of restricting their… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share
