Seth Mnookin has written an important book chronicling one of the most tragic blasts of anti-science in memory: the fraud that was the autism-vaccine link. I asked Seth to come to Yale to talk about The Panic Virus, and he’ll be there on Thursday, February 17.

Here are the details:

February 17, 4 pm

Morse College Master’s Tea

Morse College Master’s House, 304 York Street, New Haven

Originally published February 10, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.