Click above to listen to Part 2 of Skeptic Check: Science Breaking Bad, featuring Paul Offit, Professor of pediatrics, attending physician at the Division of Infectious Diseases of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and author of Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong.

Skeptic Check: Science Breaking Bad:
Part 1: Richard Harris / Sloppy Science
Part 2: Paul Offit / Science Gone Wrong
Part 3: Dave Levitan / Political “Science”

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Our Skeptic Check episodes take a critical look at extraordinary science claims and pseudoscience.

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