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Medical Neglect in the Name of God - PART 2 OF 2 (with Dr. Paul Offit)

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dr. Paul Offit is Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perleman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received awards for his work from the University of Maryland, the Infectious Disease Society of America, the National Institutes of Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and more, and he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

An author of over 150 scientific papers, Dr. Offit is the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, "Rotateq," and he released the book, "Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine," which was selected as an Editor's Choice by the New York Times in 2015.

In this 2nd half of our "Medical Neglect" show, Dr. Offit speaks with Seth Andrews about faith, medicine, belief, and faith-based ideas which often harm those who embrace them.

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0:00.0

Okay, here we go, the standby.

0:01.6

Three, two, one.

0:03.6

Action!

0:06.5

Assume nothing.

0:08.3

Branch ball face blast for me.

0:10.5

Question.

0:11.5

Everything.

0:12.5

Find it extremely hard to imagine.

0:14.2

Open your eyes.

0:16.5

It is quite alright to be an atheist.

0:18.6

The fastest growing group of people in the country

0:21.0

has been measured as being those who have no belief

0:23.5

or who are atheists.

0:25.0

You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.

0:27.4

Challenge the opposition.

0:28.9

You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.

0:32.8

And start thinking.

0:37.8

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0:44.0

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