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Seth Mnookin

Born

April 27, 1972

Website

http://sethmnookin.com/

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Genre

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Since 2005, Seth has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he’s written about the American media presence in Iraq, Bloomberg News, and Stephen Colbert. In 2002 and 2003, he was a senior writer at Newsweek, where he wrote the media column “Raw Copy” and also covered politics and popular culture.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1994 with a degree in History and Science, and was a 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, he and his wife currently live in Cambridge with their seven-year-old dog, their two-year-old son, and their infant daughter.

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A PSA to journalists writing about vaccines: Thimerosal was never used in the MMR vaccine

The shameless and lamentable decision on the part of ABC to hire Jenny McCarthy as one of its co-hosts for the daytime talk show The View has, once again, brought the topic of vaccines and autism into the news. Fortunately, the spineless “on the one hand, on the other hand” reporting that characterized this debate for so many years has, for the most part, been replaced by an almost universal ackno

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Average rating: 4.02 · 8,644 ratings · 792 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear 4.07 avg rating — 5,792 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top 3.98 avg rating — 1,432 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Michael Cart (Series Editor), Sam Lipsyte (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 (The Best American Series) by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), E.O. Wilson (Contributor), Rebecca Solnit (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard News: Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media 3.91 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Electric Shock by Cynthia Graber (Writer), Seth Mnookin (Editor), Sophia Li (Fact checker) 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The America I Envision: Political Convention Speeches 1787-2000 by Seth Mnookin (Contributor), Martin Schneider (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months At The New York Times And How They Changed the American Media 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.”
― Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

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“The type of journalism that relies on the reporter's notion of what does or doesn't "seem" correct or controversial is self-indulgent and irresponsible. It gives credence to the belief that we can intuit our way through all the various decisions we need to make in our lives and it validates the notion that our feelings are a more reliable barometer of reality than the facts.”
― Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

tags: journalism, media, myths, rationality, science

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“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)”
― Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

tags: autism, science, truthiness, vaccines

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