NY Times article

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

As the founder and sole member of Cheerleaders for University 
Presses, I want to call attention to the article in today's New 
York Times on Paul Offit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13auti.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Offit is the author of "Autism's False Prophets," published by 
Columbia University Press.  The subject is the alleged link 
between vaccination and autism.

I am not competent to comment on the matter under dispute (our 
kids were vaccinated, but if they display autistic behavior, it 
is only to my wife and me), but I was impressed to see this 
university press bring the authority and mode of discourse of the 
academy to a provocative social issue.  Society does not live on 
talk radio alone.

Incidentally, when you Google for this book, the first link is to 
the Facebook page that the Press set up.  Clever.

Joe Esposito