A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines

By Thomas Levenson (Penguin Random House, 2026). In his latest book, Levenson searches for the origins of the most common arguments against vaccines: that they are unnatural; that they are more dangerous than the illnesses they claim to prevent; and that they are an affront to freedom. "A Pox on Fools" explores the human impulse to question and wonder, sometimes past the point at which the very act of questioning turns deadly.