Paul A. Offit

Paul A. Offit is a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the author of Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong (National Geographic Press, April 2017).

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The Cure for Deadly Peanut Allergy Is... Peanuts?

Every year, about 15 million Americans suffer from food allergies, but one stands above the rest—peanuts.

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FEEL THE HEAT

The Case for Letting Fevers Run Their Course

Numerous studies over the past few years have shown that taking fever reducers hurts your body’s ability to recover from an illness.

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DO BETTER

Why Can't We Make A Better Flu Vaccine?

The virus kills more people than all other vaccine-preventable diseases combined, but the success rate of each year's vaccine is unacceptable.

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FALSE ALARM

The Pregnancy Vaccine Scare That Should Have Never Been

Why that CDC study on flu shots during the first trimester should never have been published.

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FISHY

Who’s Cheating California’s Tough New Vaccine System?

Medical exemptions tripled once a stringent law went into effect for kindergarteners. A look at where it’s coming from suggests something sinister within anti-vaxxer strongholds.

Paul A. Offit

Paul A. Offit

The Cure for Deadly Peanut Allergy Is... Peanuts?

The Case for Letting Fevers Run Their Course

Why Can't We Make A Better Flu Vaccine?

The Pregnancy Vaccine Scare That Should Have Never Been

Who’s Cheating California’s Tough New Vaccine System?

The Loathsome American Book That Inspired Hitler

Anti-Vaxxers’ Next Victims? Dogs

Are Doctors Wrong About Finishing Your Antibiotics?

A Childhood Game, Revisited as Old Men

Our Sickest Pseudoscience Resurfaces—in a Tennessee Jail