Chris Mooney is Washington correspondent for
Seed magazine and a senior correspondent for the
American Prospect. 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. Chris's first book,
entitled
The Republican War on Science, is due out in
September 2005 with Basic Books.
Chris 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, Chris 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).
Chris 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 Chris 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.
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