Killing Us Softly (35 page)

Authors: Dr Paul Offit

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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

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Fourth Estate

Also published in the United States in 2013 by Harper, a division of HarperCollins
Publishers
US as
Do You Believe in Magic?:

The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

The right of Dr Paul Offit to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Source ISBN: 9780007491728

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