The Panic Virus

Interview: Seth Mnookin on Championing Smart, Compassionate Vaccine Information

January 2, 2012 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Seth Mnookin’s book The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear is a smart, compassionate, detailed history of vaccine misinformation and distrust. It’s being re-released in paperback tomorrow, with a new cover, a more direct subtitle, and a new afterword. TPGA editor Shannon Rosa talked with Seth last year about the motivation […]

An Interview with Seth Mnookin, Author of The Panic Virus

January 18, 2011 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

It is bizarre that claims linking vaccines to autism have persisted for more than a decade when they can be debunked by a sixty-second Google search. But, as investigative journalist Seth Mnookin explains in his new book The Panic Virus, vaccine facts can’t always compete with parent-, internet-, and media-generated vaccine beliefs. The Thinking Person’s