Chris Mooney (journalist)
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| Born |
September 20, 1977 Mesa, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Subject | Science and politics |
| Notable works | The Republican War on Science |
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Christopher Cole "Chris" Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is an American journalist and author of four books including the 2005 New York Times Best Seller The Republican War on Science. Mooney's writing focuses on subjects such as global warming and the creation–evolution controversy, and he has been described as "one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics."
Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of his parents were college English professors. He attended Isidore Newman School before entering Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1999. His interest in science, and especially biology and the impact of Charles Darwin, was strongly influenced by his grandfather Gerald A. Cole, a biologist at Arizona State University and author of Textbook of Limnology, a noted book in the field. Mooney is the oldest of three siblings: his sister Kate Mooney is a freelance writer and his brother Davy Mooney is a jazz guitarist.
Upon graduation from Yale, Mooney took a position at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York but soon returned to New Orleans to consider his future as a writer. He became a freelance writer for the magazine Lingua Franca before earning a one-year fellowship at The American Prospect magazine in 2000. Upon the completion of the fellowship he was hired by the magazine and moved to Washington, D.C. as a staff writer. As online editor for the magazine he helped establish Tapped, the group blog of American Prospect.
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