An Article from the Washington City Paper

[Guest guest]

Aasa has sent you an article from the Washington City Paper.Message from Aasa:More B.S. from Offit re Maurice Hilleman...a quote from the article:

" Though it’s not the work of a journalist, Offit’s entertaining and authoritative account displays a mastery of his subject that few journalists could match. "

(mastery of " spin " . perhaps?)

I wonder if there's any mention in his book about the memo Hilleman sent to Merck regarding the additive amounts of thimerosal in childhood vaccines.Immunity ChallengeReviewed: A. Offit, M.D.'s Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest DiseasesBooks By HalprinMaurice Hilleman may have saved your life. Over a long and brilliant career at the pharmaceutical giant Merck, the gruff Montana microbiologist creat!

ed vaccines for hepatitis B, mumps, and measles, among others. In researching his wonderful new book, Vaccinated, A. Offit conducted interviews with Hilleman not long before the scientist died in 2005 and pays a deserved tribute to the man whose name is all but unknown outside medical circles. (He never, for example, won the Nobel Prize, though colleagues lobbied on his behalf.) More important, the book weaves his life into a broader discussion of vaccines: their history, their amazing successes, and their comparably mild dangers. Since the 18th century, when English doctor Jenner used pus from cowpox lesions to prevent smallpox, vaccines have counted among the most important achievements of science—and also some of the most misunderstood. As Offit explains, when a vaccine works, nothing happens. But vacci...Read more at The Washington City Paper

[Guest guest]

maybe the book will sell as well as Arthur 's book. LOLpenas7ar@... wrote: Aasa has sent you an article from the Washington City Paper. Message from Aasa:More B.S. from Offit re Maurice Hilleman...a quote from the article: "Though it’s not the work of a journalist, Offit’s entertaining

and authoritative account displays a mastery of his subject that few journalists could match." (mastery of "spin". perhaps?) I wonder if there's any mention in his book about the memo Hilleman sent to Merck regarding the additive amounts of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. Immunity Challenge Reviewed: A. Offit, M.D.'s Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases Books By Halprin Maurice Hilleman may have

saved your life. Over a long and brilliant career at the pharmaceutical giant Merck, the gruff Montana microbiologist creat! ed vaccines for hepatitis B, mumps, and measles, among others. In researching his wonderful new book, Vaccinated, A. Offit conducted interviews with Hilleman not long before the scientist died in 2005 and pays a deserved tribute to the man whose name is all but unknown outside medical circles. (He never, for example, won the Nobel Prize, though colleagues lobbied on his behalf.) More important, the book weaves his life into a broader discussion of vaccines: their history, their amazing successes, and their comparably mild dangers. Since the 18th century, when English doctor Jenner used pus from cowpox lesions to prevent smallpox, vaccines have counted among the most important achievements of science—and also some of the most misunderstood. As Offit explains, when a vaccine works, nothing happens. But vacci... Read more at The Washington City Paper

Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Answers - Check it out.