Michael Specter

Michael Specter appears in the following:

Dr. Oz Fights For Credibility

Friday, April 24, 2015

Ten doctors sent a critical letter to Dr. Oz's boss at Columbia medical school, but it may do more harm than good in exposing the pseudoscience of The Dr. Oz Show.

Comments [10]

GMMs: Genetically Modified Mosquitos

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Up until now, our main ways of combating mosquitoes involved avoidance and swatting. But a British biotechnology company is trying something different: the genetic modification of mosquitoes themselves.

Comments [5]

Shmeat: Is It What's for Dinner?

Friday, September 09, 2011

Michael Specter, New Yorker staff writer on science, technology and public health and the author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives (Penguin 2009), explains the science of lab-grown meat, or shmeat, and takes your calls on whether you'd eat it as an alternative to meat.

Comments [14]

Denialism

Monday, November 23, 2009

New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter examines how and why Americans have come to mistrust institutions, especially the institution of science. For centuries, the general view of science was that it is neither good nor bad, but it merely supplies information. In Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, ...

Comments [125]