A Pox on Fools: How the Anti-Vax Lobby is Undermining Mankind's Most Lifesaving Invention
Thomas Levenson
May 2026 · Bloomsbury GB Audio · Narrated by Mike Cooper
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Bloomsbury presents A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson, read by Mike Cooper.
An urgent and timely history of anti-vaccine arguments and the dangers of their proliferation.
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy, the incoming Health Secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, to revoke the validation of the polio vaccine is a spectacular example of self-inflicted harm. The effective eradication of a terrible disease is under threat from a man who believes that vaccines – almost all vaccines – cause autism and other conditions, and that seed oils are a deadly threat to human health.
Tom Levenson’s brilliant, short historical book exposes the refusal of the anti-vax movement to accept the reality of communicable diseases and how to prevent them. Vaccines in earlier times provoked fear of the new and seemed to limit the liberty of individuals, but we are now dealing with historical amnesia on a grand scale: the anti-vaxxers have forgotten, or never knew, how terrifying life was with diseases like polio and mumps.
An urgent and timely history of anti-vaccine arguments and the dangers of their proliferation.
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy, the incoming Health Secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, to revoke the validation of the polio vaccine is a spectacular example of self-inflicted harm. The effective eradication of a terrible disease is under threat from a man who believes that vaccines – almost all vaccines – cause autism and other conditions, and that seed oils are a deadly threat to human health.
Tom Levenson’s brilliant, short historical book exposes the refusal of the anti-vax movement to accept the reality of communicable diseases and how to prevent them. Vaccines in earlier times provoked fear of the new and seemed to limit the liberty of individuals, but we are now dealing with historical amnesia on a grand scale: the anti-vaxxers have forgotten, or never knew, how terrifying life was with diseases like polio and mumps.
Bloomsbury presents A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson, read by Mike Cooper.
An urgent and timely history of anti-vaccine arguments and the dangers of their proliferation.
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy, the incoming Health Secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, to revoke the validation o...
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Thomas Levenson is a teacher, author and documentary filmmaker. He is Professor of Science Writing and Director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As well as writing articles and reviews, he is the author of Einstein in Berlin, Newton and the Counterfeiter, The Hunt for Vulcan, Money for Nothing and So Very Small.
Thomas Levenson is a teacher, author and documentary filmmaker. He is Professor of Science Writing and Director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As well as writing articles and reviews, he is the author of Einstein in Berlin, Newton an...
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