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The Anti-Vaccine Movement
['Rund Abdelfatah Ramtin Arablouei Casey Miner Anya Steinberg Julie Caine Devin Katayama Cristina Kim Lawrence Wu Irene Noguchi', 'Rund Abdelfatah', 'Ramtin Arablouei', 'Casey Miner', 'Anya Steinberg', 'Julie Caine', 'Devin Katayama', 'Cristina Kim', 'Lawrence Wu', 'Irene Noguchi']
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In this episode: the roots of the modern anti-vaccine movement, and of the fears that still fuel it – from a botched polio vaccine, to the discredited autism study, to today. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Arthur Allen, senior correspondent for nonprofit KFF Health News and author of Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver