Seth Mnookin: Science vs. feelings in the fight over vaccines
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2013
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Science writer Seth Mnookin set out to write a book on whether vaccines were dangerous, but discovered the issue was more complex than he'd thought. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more here: http://storycollider.org/ Seth Mnookin teaches in MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy, was one of The Wall Street Journal's Top Five Health and Medicine books for 2011 and is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the author of the 2006 New York Times-bestseller Feeding the Monster and 2004's Hard News, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. He's a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and blogs at the Public Library of Science.
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| 0:21.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:24.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:26.7 | I felt... |
| 0:27.4 | I felt... |
| 0:27.6 | I was so... |
| 0:28.6 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:29.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:32.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:42.7 | ... Science was on my side. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:49.9 | A quick reminder, we have upcoming shows in New York on June 18th and London on June 25th. |
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| 0:58.2 | This week's story is from Seth Mnuchin. |
| 1:00.7 | The story was recorded in June 2013 at Johnny Dees in Somerville, Massachusetts. |
| 1:06.9 | The theme of the night was, the science I never expected. |
| 1:23.7 | In 2007, my wife and I moved from where we were living in Manhattan to a home in Brooklyn. |
| 1:30.3 | And almost immediately, we found ourselves being invited to dinner parties so our social engagements were no longer taking place in bars where we had to shout to be heard |
| 1:35.3 | but now we were sitting around tables having civilized conversations with other married |
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