— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

May 17, 2026

• 2 min read

"It was David versus Goliath ... and you know something, we ripped them to shreds." -- Daniel McGee, MD, of Eugene Emergency Physicians in Oregon, a plaintiff in a lawsuit to block an employer from replacing the local medical team with an out-of-state corporation.

"His legal problems don't change the data in that study." -- Paul Offit, MD, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, discussing Poul Thorsen, MD, PhD, a Danish researcher who co-authored key research demonstrating no links between childhood vaccines and autism, who was arraigned on federal wire fraud and money laundering charges after his extradition from Germany,