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Author, The Panic Virus; Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair

Seth Mnookin is a lecturer in MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book, The Panic Virus, examines the controversies over vaccines and autism as a way examining how our society decides what counts as truth. He is also the author of two previous books: The 2006 New York Times bestseller Feeding the Monster, about the Boston Red Sox, and Hard News, a Washington Post best book of the year in 2004. Since 2005, he has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and he writes The Panic Virus blog at the Public Library of Science.