Author's Biography
Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is
an American science writer. He is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad
Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), and Good
Calories, Bad Calories (2007), which is titled The Diet Delusion in the UK. He has
won the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers
three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for
1996-97.
Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes
studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford (MS,
1978). After receiving a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University
in 1981, Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982. Since
then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines.
Originally focusing on physics issues, his interests have more recently turned
to medicine and nutrition.
Taubes’ books have all dealt with
scientific controversies. Nobel Dreams takes a critical look at the politics
and experimental techniques behind the Nobel Prize-winning work of physicist
Carlo Rubbia. Bad Science is a chronicle of the short-lived media frenzy
surrounding the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiments of 1989. (from- http://www.gary Taubes.com/bio)
Gary Taubes at the Walnut Creek Library on 4/2/11 - about his book "Good calories Bad calories" (Obesity, heart disease).
Gary Taubes at OSUMC
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