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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Paul Offit, "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Description: Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often? Today I talked to Paul Offit about his book Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far (HarperCollins, 2020)Offit is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. A prolific author, he’s also well known for being the public face of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism.Topics covered in this episode include:
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