Steve Silberman
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584 appearances
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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for a sort of a live performance group in san francisco on the woman who invented the icons for the macintosh susan care and the people who saw that liked the presentation and then they were invited to give a series of talks at ted three years ago and so they is they said well you can talk about anything you want and i said well i have this book coming out in a few months you know do you want me to talk about that and the reason why i talked specifically about
a very basic, very simplified explanation of what's explained in much more detail in my book is that I felt like parents had been bombarded by misinformation and controversy and arguments and just so much anger on every side.
You know, the anti-vaccine people were angry at Big Pharma.
And I had written about Big Pharma for Wired.
I was a senior science writer for Wired for like 15 years.
I knew that big pharma was very capable of doing terrible things.
But were they doing a terrible thing about vaccines?
And the more that I looked into that, you know, Andrew Wakefield is a liar.
Let me just say that up front.
But when I started my book, I did not take that approach.
I thought that Andrew Wakefield might be a very sincere and earnest scientist who tended to be sloppy because everyone knew that
His study was badly run and that there were ethical concerns and that, you know, it came out that he had a patent for an alternate vaccine formulation that he hoped would be adopted after the MMR was, you know, made the object of fear and terror.
But the more that I studied the history of autism, which Andrew Wakefield continually misrepresented,
It was very obvious to me after several years of research that what Andrew had done was I had him on tape saying, I didn't know anything about autism before I did my study, you know, his famous study.
And so what he did was he really he read this book called The Age of Autism that was put together by the the biggest anti-vaxxers on the Web.
And he just appropriated their history, which was wrong.
And how do I know that?
Because I read the same papers that they did and they continuously misrepresented them.
So after a while, I stopped thinking of Andrew Wakefield as a true believer and just started to think of him as a fraud.
But the problem is that the anti-vaccine movement and Andrew Wakefield did something that was very useful for parents in a way, in that everyone knew that for some set of unknown reasons until my book came out, the number of diagnoses that
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