“ Autism’s False Prophets ” has caused quite a stir in the autism-vaccine advocacy community. They started early and they worked somewhat hard to defuse the book’s impact. Consider an earlier post on the Age of Autism blog. This was titled “ Phalse Profits: Offit’s Book Peaks At 8,173 “.
The 8,173 was the rank of the book in Amazon.com. The blogger apparently had been watching day by day and noted the book’s rank. After the initial peak, the blogger reported back.
The blogger was trying to make a point that Dr. Offit’s book isn’t being purchased in high numbers. I never expected it too. As I write this, it has risen to #779. It was at 715 yesterday, but I haven’t been watching that closely to see if that was the “peak”. Not too shabby. It is also number 1 in a few categories, including:
Books > Science > Medicine > Administration > Policy > Health Care Delivery
Books > Science > Medicine > Administration > Policy > Public Health
Books > Professional > Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Biology > Microbiology
I don’t expect Age of Autism to write a correction. Then again, I didn’t expect longtime vaccine-autism activist Rick Rollens to admit that MMR doesn’t cause autism, so who knows?
In my mind I find an interesting analogy to Mark and David Geier declaring that the CDDS autism count showed “early downward trends”, indicating that, yes, thimerosal caused autism.
They seemed to stop watching and didn’t report back when it turned out that the “early” trend was, in fact, false.
They left that up to Schechter and Grether...
But, I digress. Autism’s False Prophets is not the kind of book to become a best seller. Too bad, really, as it is quite well done. But, that is not to say that the book isn’t doing quite well.
Good for whatever autism research group gets the proceeds. Yep, Dr. Offit is donating the proceeds to autism research.
“ Autism’s False Prophets ” has caused quite a stir in the autism-vaccine advocacy community. They started early and they worked somewhat hard to defuse the book’s impact. Consider an earlier post on the Age of Autism blog. This was titled “ Phalse Profits: Offit’s Book Peaks At 8,173 “.
The 8,173 was the rank of the book in Amazon.com. The blogger apparently had been watching day by day and noted the book’s rank. After the initial peak, the blogger reported back.
The blogger was trying to make a point that Dr. Offit’s book isn’t being purchased in high numbers. I never expected it too. As I write this, it has risen to #779. It was at 715 yesterday, but I haven’t been watching that closely to see if that was the “peak”. Not too shabby. It is also number 1 in a few categories, including:
Books > Science > Medicine > Administration > Policy > Health Care Delivery
Books > Science > Medicine > Administration > Policy > Public Health
Books > Professional > Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Biology > Microbiology
I don’t expect Age of Autism to write a correction. Then again, I didn’t expect longtime vaccine-autism activist Rick Rollens to admit that MMR doesn’t cause autism, so who knows?
In my mind I find an interesting analogy to Mark and David Geier declaring that the CDDS autism count showed “early downward trends”, indicating that, yes, thimerosal caused autism.
They seemed to stop watching and didn’t report back when it turned out that the “early” trend was, in fact, false.
They left that up to Schechter and Grether...
But, I digress. Autism’s False Prophets is not the kind of book to become a best seller. Too bad, really, as it is quite well done. But, that is not to say that the book isn’t doing quite well.
Good for whatever autism research group gets the proceeds. Yep, Dr. Offit is donating the proceeds to autism research.