Seth Mnookin is a professor of science writing and the head of the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT. His most recent book, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, is about the inaccurate belief that vaccines are linked to autism. He is also the author of Feeding the Monster, about the Boston Red Sox, and Hard News, about the New York Times. You can follow him on X at @sethmnookin.
