Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information

Paul Offit takes a slightly different tack with his latest book, Bad Advice.  He's still crusading against medical quackery and scientific woo, but instead of presenting new cases, he revisits the world of anti-vaxxers and supplement advocates with tips on how to properly argue for science.  There's not much new (other than the news that Andrew Wakefield has been reduced to the conspiracy theorist circuit), but this time Offit explains how he and others have effectively refuted bad science.  Offit also describes some of the dangers (lawsuits, stalking, death threats) that come with fighting for science and against public opinion and has enough of a sense of humor to dissect some of his least successful media appearances - and to admit that the most frightening audience he ever faced was his daughter's 8th grade class.