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Michael Specter

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Michael Specter

Michael Specter

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

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Authors, Culture, Inspirational, Journalism, Motivation
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Michael Specter Biography

Michael Specter has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998 and has written about agricultural biotechnology, the global aids epidemic, avian influenza, malaria, the world's diminishing freshwater resources, synthetic biology, geoengineering, new ways to edit DNA with crispr, and the implications of gene-drive technology. Previously, he worked at the New York Times as its senior foreign correspondent based in Rome and he served as the paper's Moscow bureau chief. Before joining the Times, he served as the Washington Post's national science reporter and, later, as its New York bureau chief. He has twice received the Global Health Council's annual Excellence in Media Award: in 2002, for "India's Plague," and in 2005, for "The Devastation," about the ethics of testing H.I.V. vaccines in Africa. He is the author of "Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives," which received the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Robert P. Balles Annual Prize in Critical Thinking. His piece "Against the Grain" won a 2015 James Beard Award, in the Food and Health category. His forthcoming book on the gene-editing revolution will be published in 2020.

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Michael Specter Speaking Topics

  • Denialism

  • The Placebo Effect

    Half of all American adults medicated themselves; either with vitamins, antioxidant mixtures or a pill that they have decided is more likely to help them than the drugs their doctors prescribe. Hospitals, doctors, health management leaders detest this fact, but denying it doesn't mean it isn't so. To explore this phenomenon, Harvard now has an entire institute devoted to the study of placebos. It's the Program of Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter which looks at the study and eventual deployment of placebos as drugs. Post docs and graduate students are waiting in line to get in. The research has been propelled in large measure by the emerging discipline of neuroimaging.

    In several recent studies, placebos have performed as well as drugs that Americans spend millions of dollars on every year.

    It is currently up to the healthcare system to explain to patients why one treatment matters and others don't and there is a need to talk to patients honestly about all of the available options.

Michael Specter Videos

  • Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
    Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
    http://www.ted.com Vaccine-autism claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public's growing fear (and, often, outright...
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Michael Specter Books

  • Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
    Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

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    Michael Specter is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Authors, Culture, Inspirational, Journalism, Motivation.

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Michael Specter is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Denialism and The Placebo Effect. The estimated speaking fee range to book Michael Specter for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Michael Specter generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Bill Gates, Seth Berkley, Antonio Damasio, Nicholas Christakis and Ev Williams. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Michael Specter for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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