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 Michael Fumento, director of the Independent Journalism Project, is an investigative reporter, author, attorney and photographer specializing in science and health issues. He received his undergraduate degree in political science while an Army paratrooper, where he achieved the rank of sergeant. In 1985 he was graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania bar.
He has been a nationally syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, a legal writer for the Washington Times, a science correspondent for Reason magazine, editorial writer for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and was the first "National Issues" reporter for Investor’s Business Daily. He was an embedded journalist a total of four times in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeing combat with the Navy SEALs and the 101st Airborne Division.
Mr. Fumento was the 1994 Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and has been a fellow with Hudson Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and Consumer Alert in Washington, D.C.
A finalist for the prestigious National Magazine Award.
His articles have appeared around the world, including such magazines as Readers’ Digest, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, USA Weekend, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, Reason, Policy Review, The American Spectator, and The Spectator (London).
He’s published in such newspapers as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribunethe Christian Science Monitor, The Sunday Times of London, The Sunday Telegraph of London, and the Jerusalem Post. His television appearances include Nightline; ABC World News; ABC News 20/20; numerous programs on CBS; NBC; CNN; and Fox; PBS; MacNeil-Lehrer; CNBC; the BBC; the Canadian Broadcasting Network; C-SPAN; the Christian Broadcasting Network; Donahue; This Week with David Brinkley, ESPN, and many others.
Mr. Fumento has lectured on science and health issues throughout the nation and the world, including Great Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Greece, Austria, China, and South America. He has authored five books and co-authored two more, including:
Michael Fumento lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Read interviews with Fumento: Michael Fumento Loves
Role as Dispeller of Modern Myths (Insight on the News, Sept.
29, 1997); and Hudson’s Science and Health "Mythbuster"
Challenges Misrepresentation of Facts (Visions, Winter 2000);
as well as other press coverage.
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