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SUMMARY:Author Talk: A Pox on Fools
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging evening with author Thomas Levenson as 
 he discusses his new book\, "A Pox on Fools: The True Believers\, Grifters
 \, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines\," in conversation with 
 MIT Museum Director Michael John Gorman. Since the advent of smallpox inoc
 ulation in the eighteenth century\, the idea that a disease introduced to 
 the body in some lesser\, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection
  has been one of the greatest public health insights of the modern era\, i
 nspiring the invention of numerous vaccines and saving countless human liv
 es. But\, just as humanity acquired the superhuman ability to stop infecti
 ous disease in its tracks\, some feared we had gone too far\, leading to s
 kepticism that has hijacked public health discourse today. In three sweepi
 ng essays written for our current moment of scientific mistrust\, Thomas L
 evenson searches for the origins of the most common arguments against vacc
 ines: that they are unnatural\; that they are more…\n\nhttps://localz.ev
 ents/e/author-talk-a-pox-on-fools-143734
LOCATION:MIT Museum\, MIT Museum\, Cambridge
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URL:https://localz.events/e/author-talk-a-pox-on-fools-143734
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