From Newsweek, an extended feature on Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a lightning rod in the white-hot controversy over childhood immunizations.

Offit is the nation’s most outspoken advocate for vaccinations, which has set him up for criticism and worse from parents who blame the shots for their children’s autism. The author of a new book on the subject, Offit says he’s been harassed in public and received threats in letters, emails and phone calls.

He has the same motivation that parents do, Offit says: He wants what’s best for kids. He challenges his critics to disprove his scientific analysis, which quotes study after study showing no vaccine-autism link. The book is “Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure.”

With video.

Earlier posts here and here and here.

(Photo from Newsweek video.)

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