ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to thank T. J. Kelleher for his wisdom, humor, scientific knowledge, and deft editorial hand; Andrew Zack for guiding me through the narrow streets of the publishing business; Bojana Ristich and Christine Arden for their lessons on logic, style, and form; Erica Johnson for her research assistance; Patrick Fitzgerald, Susan Martin, Don Mitchell, John O’Brien, Carl Offit, Bonnie Offit, Emily Offit, and Will Offit for their careful reading of the manuscript; and Jennifer Bardwell, Jeff Bergelson, Samuel Berkovic, Matt Carey, James Cherry, Kristen Feemster, Mark Feinberg, David Gorski, Lawrence Gostin, Penny Heaton, Alan Hinman, Phil Johnson, Matthew Kronman, Gary Marshall, Charlotte Moser, Sheila Nolan, Glen Nowak, Walter Orenstein, Georges Peter, Larry Pickering, Amy Pisani, Stanley Plotkin, Lisa Randall, Ken Reibel, Lance Rodewald, Lucy Rorke-Adams, John Salamone, David Salisbury, William Schaffner, Jason Schwartz, Alison Singer, Michael Smith, Mike Stanton, Kirsten Thistle, Dan Thomasch, Tom Vernon, Deborah Wexler, Margaret Williams, and Karie Youngdahl for their recollections of the vaccine controversy as well as their expertise.

I would also like to acknowledge the bravery of Ira Flatow, John Hamilton, Gardiner Harris, Claudia Kalb, Ron Lin, Anita Manning, Chris Mooney, Anahad O’Connor, Jon Palfreman, Rahul Parikh, Amanda Peet, Ami Schmitz, Nancy Snyderman, Michael Specter, Travis Stork, John Stossel, Liz Szabo, Trine Tsouderos, and Amy Wallace for their willingness to stand up for the science of vaccine safety independent of the cost.