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Author, Money for Nothing, and much else. Professing science writing at MIT. Servant to Tikka & Champ. @tomlevenson@mastodon.online & @tomlevenson.bsky.social
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How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

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By Thomas Levenson
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Thomas Levenson Takes on Some Common Arguments Against Immunization We don’t know their names. We almost certainly never will. But beginning on February 11, 2022 108 healthy adults from across the United States performed an act of selfless generosity. Twelve went first. They were the guinea pigs, those willing to ensure the safety of others by taking the risk of whatever might go wrong.
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

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By Thomas Levenson
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. Apr. 2025. 10:12 hrs. ISBN 9780593950128. $76. SCIENCES COPY ISBN Levenson ( Money for Nothing), who teaches science writing at MIT, recounts the history of germ theory in this work. He starts with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch draper who, in 1676, constructed his own microscopes and thence discovered a previously unknown world of living organisms.
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Expand your horizons with MIT’s summer 2025 reading list

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By Thomas Levenson, Alan Lightman, Greg Epstein, Arthur Bahr
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Enjoy recent titles from Institute faculty and staff, including three books from the MIT Open Learning community. Zoom image will be displayed Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a good book — and MIT authors have had much to offer in the past year.
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