Chris Mooney

He focuses on issues at the intersection of science and politics; recent articles include a Columbia Journalism Review feature story about the problem with "balance" in science coverage and a Boston Globe commentary on the political plight faced by scientists over the next four years. Monney’s first book is titled The Republican War on Science.

Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana; he graduated from Yale University in 1999, where he wrote a column for the Yale Daily News. Before becoming a freelance writer, Mooney worked for two years at The American Prospect as a writing fellow, then staff writer, then online editor (where he helped to create the popular blog, Tapped).

Mooney has contributed to a variety of other publications in recent years, including Wired, Slate, Salon, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs, Reason, The American Scholar, The Washington Monthly, The Utne Reader, Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper, and The Boston Globe. He also speaks regularly at academic meetings, to college classes, and on university campuses--recent stops include Harvard University, Franklin & Marshall College, and Rutgers University.

In addition, every week Mooney writes a column for The American Prospect Online, and each month he writes for the website of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, where he serves as a contributing editor.