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Interviewed by host Meghna Chakrabarti. Joel Weinstock, a major character in An Epidemic of Absence, also answers questions on the show. He likes the book! And he adds emphatically that no one should try hookworm.

Last Friday (Sept. 21), Epidemic was on the Mike McConnell show, WGN in Chicago.

Epidemic on the BBC World Update. The segment starts around 35:50. The intro: “If you’re eating, you may want to swallow hard. Because the next story is a little stomach churning…”

The NYT gives An Epidemic of Absence a so-so review. My favorite graf: Clearly, if true, the hygiene hypothesis is the single greatest medical story of our time, undercutting a century of putative progress. Is it true? Probably some of it is. But Mr. Velasquez-Manoff’s ambitious compendium of data and supposition — a great dense fruitcake of a book whose 680 endnotes, the author notes apologetically, refer to only a

People, So I promised to counter “smack downs” of my NYT oped on autism. My rebuttal is disappointingly simple and boring. As I told Wired.com, talk to scientists. See what they say about this research, and about my piece. Check it out with them. Paul Patterson, who pioneered much of the prenatal-inflammation-autism research, has made this quite easy. He has a blog. (I did not know this when I wrote the o

Salon runs a chunk of my opening chapter.  

A short, fun piece apropos of An Epidemic of Absence in the Daily Beast. Biological gonzo journalism.

Science writer Matt Ridley’s review of An Epidemic of Absence at the WSJ is all one could hope for.

WBUR’s Carey Golberg asks for some real-life recommendations, which I caveat to the point of being nearly unrecognizable as advice.

Good Q&A session about An Epidemic of Absence with Leonard Lopate.