A Pox on Fools
The Grifters and Cynics Who Want Us to Reject Vaccines
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A Pox on Fools
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Mike Cooper
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Thomas Levenson
About this listen
An urgent and timely history of anti-vaccine arguments and the dangers of their proliferation.
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy, the incoming Health Secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, to revoke the validation of the polio vaccine is a spectacular example of self-inflicted harm. The effective eradication of a terrible disease is under threat from a man who believes that vaccines – almost all vaccines – cause autism and other conditions, and that seed oils are a deadly threat to human health.
Tom Levenson’s brilliant, short historical book exposes the refusal of the anti-vax movement to accept the reality of communicable diseases and how to prevent them. Vaccines in earlier times provoked fear of the new and seemed to limit the liberty of individuals, but we are now dealing with historical amnesia on a grand scale: the anti-vaxxers have forgotten, or never knew, how terrifying life was with diseases like polio and mumps.©2026 Thomas Levenson (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Critic reviews
This highly readable account of how vaccines have saved millions of lives is a call to arms for anyone who cares about the future of vaccine confidence. (Meredith Wadman)
Levenson serves up this powerful, timely and important book about a technology that has extended and saved hundreds of millions of lives, and the incredible story of why we’ve begun to turn our backs on it. (Kevin Fong)
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