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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

What Is The Tea With Vaccines, Hunty? with Dr. Nina Shapiro

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Nina Shapiro is the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She joins Jonathan to discuss the history and importance of vaccinations, how vaccines work, good science versus bad science, thoughts from her new book, and more. You can find more of Dr. Shapiro’s work at http://drninashapiro.com. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook @drninashapiro. Make sure to check out her book A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious.

0:04.3

I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 30 minute or 40 minute or 50 minute

0:08.4

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:12.6

So usually guys, when I record an episode and then when it comes out they're closer together,

0:18.1

this gorgeous episode on vaccines we actually recorded on January 21st so I've had it in

0:22.6

the bank for a little bit but here's the thing.

0:24.9

When this episode was recorded I had just heard the beginning of what was becoming the

0:28.6

measles outbreak in Washington and New York on the news but we really didn't know yet

0:33.6

because it wasn't that it hadn't proliferated so much.

0:36.6

It's interesting now that two months later we find that these outbreaks are still happening

0:41.2

and there continues to be like legislation that's been proposed and come out and there's

0:45.4

been a lot of controversy around it.

0:46.6

So obviously vaccines are always controversial.

0:50.2

It's a thing.

0:52.3

So today I'm joined by Dr. Nina Shapiro, director of pediatric ear, nose and throat at the

0:57.5

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

1:03.3

to come and tell us a little bit about this hype around vaccines and medicine and what

1:07.4

is the tea with vaccines and tea.

1:14.3

Welcome to getting curious.

1:15.3

This is Jonathan Vaness.

1:16.3

I'm very excited to welcome Dr. Nina Shapiro, author of hype.

1:21.3

Honey, I love this book.

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