Seth Mnookin is the co-director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy, won the National Association of Science Writers 2012 “Science in Society” Award. He is also the author of the 2006 New York Times bestseller Feeding the Monster (about the Boston Red Sox) and 2004′s Hard News (about The New York Times). A former Newsweek national correspondent, he’s written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Slate, and New York Magazine. Since 2005 he’s been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He blogs at PLOS BLOGS and is on Twitter at @sethmnookin.