Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey...
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September 30, 2006
Category: Updates
I have had a very, very good September. I traveled across the country, and back, twice (with offset credits for my carbon). I gave fifteen speeches, to (I would guess) over a thousand people in total. At many of my...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 6:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2006
Category: Updates
As usual, being on the road is starting to wear on me a little bit...but there's one more talk tonight, and then I hole myself up again to work on the hurricane book. This one is in Santa Fe: Friday,...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2006
Category: Politics and Science
My piece in the latest issue of Seed--not yet online, but will be soon I hope--is about the scientist activism group that just announced its existence, Scientists and Engineers for America. As I argue in Seed, this could be the...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:05 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
I had a good event at Changing Hands bookstore, in Tempe, Arizona, tonight. So many people came to the talk that the bookstore had to rearrange chairs quickly, in a larger space, to accommodate them all. In the audience,...
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September 27, 2006
Category: Updates
"...tiresome polemic masquerading as a defense of scientific purity...." "The reader must therefore decide if the narrator is unreliable or just hopelessly naïve...." "Mooney's polemical fervor blinds him to the political content inherent in all discourse that connects science to...
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September 26, 2006
Category: Updates
Fellow science blogger John Fleck has a piece this week in the Albuquerque Journal about yrs truly blowing through New Mexico. An excerpt:...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2006
Category: Politics and Science
I am a lucky author....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 7:46 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2006
Category: Updates
Tomorrow I head out for five talks in five days in the following locales....New York, NY; Madison, Wisconsin; Tempe, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. This will be accompanied, as usual, by various radio interviews and such....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:38 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
I'm happy to announce that the paperback edition of The Republican War on Science is a "Paperback Row" pick for this Sunday's Times book review. The Times also links to John Horgan's mostly favorable review, which was part of a...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:46 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2006
Category: Updates
As you can see in this pic of (from left to right) Big Head Rob, Matt Nisbet, and myself, we were stylin' at Science Club Friday night in DC. Although no one, no one, could out-style Matt Nisbet's white...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2006
Category: Personal
Numerical models suggest that Mooney and Nisbet will be in rare form this Friday night at Science Club in DC. And Big Head Rob and Kelly Ann Collins have official party announcements (one of which includes a Weird Science poster)....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:37 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Updates
...Between now and the bday party tomorrow, I am going to try to get some significant work done. It's an important snatch of time, especially as I have another talk on Saturday (in Ohio, info here) and then I'm back...
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September 20, 2006
Category: Politics and Science
So: KAC got sent the Discovery Institute's critique (PDF) of my chapter on "intelligent design." Her very appropriate response: "(WTF?!)" She also claims I'm "blinding her with science" (and provides the classic Thomas Dolby video to prove it)....
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:23 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Born September 20, 1977, in Mesa, Arizona. (And I'm speaking very near there on Sept 27!) I don't remember at what time of day I was born. I'd have to call my Mom to find that out and she's probably...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:44 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2006
Category: Updates
Check this out, in no particular order:...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:03 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
After the Discovery Institute's criticism of my credentials, it occurred to me that I'm hardly the only person to study the works of someone like Chuck Dickens in college, only to end up writing professionally about the works of someone...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:56 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
