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SUMMARY:Author Talk: A Pox on Fools
LOCATION:MIT Museum\, 314 Main Street\, Gambrill Center\, Cambridge MA 021
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging evening with author Thomas Levenson as
  he discusses his new book\, "A Pox on Fools: The True Believers\, Grifte
 rs\, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines\," in conversation wi
 th MIT Museum Director Michael John Gorman.\n\nSince the advent of smallp
 ox inoculation in the eighteenth century\, the idea that a disease introd
 uced to the body in some lesser\, weakened form might prevent full-blown 
 infection has been one of the greatest public health insights of the mode
 rn era\, inspiring the invention of numerous vaccines and saving countles
 s human lives. But\, just as humanity acquired the superhuman ability to 
 stop infectious disease in its tracks\, some feared we had gone too far\,
  leading to skepticism that has hijacked public health discourse today.\n
 \nIn three sweeping essays written for our current moment of scientific m
 istrust\, Thomas Levenson searches for the origins of the most common arg
 uments against vaccines: that they are unnatural\; that they are more dan
 gerous than the illnesses they claim to prevent\; and that they are an af
 front to freedom. Each arose from the earliest development of particular 
 vaccines and the campaigns to distribute them. Even as the pattern repeat
 s\, Levenson reveals how innocent that skepticism initially was and\, in 
 each case\, how very human fears and questions ultimately turned into som
 ething darker\, where no truth would be enough to overcome the doubt.\n\n
 Copies of A Pox on Fools will be available for purchase and signing after
  \n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/c3ee0be4-e501-43b8-bb17-1c4be0cddb62
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/c3ee0be4-e501-43b8-bb17-1c4be0cddb62
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