Michael Fumento is an author, journalist, and attorney specializing in science and health issues. He is a regular contributor to Townhall.com, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He received his undergraduate degree while serving in the Army, where he achieved the rank of sergeant. In 1985 he was graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law. He has been a legal writer for the Washington Times, editorial writer for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and was the first "National Issues" reporter for Investor's Business Daily. In 2005 he reported from Iraq as an embed with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in Fallujah.Mr. Fumento was the 1994 Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., a fellow with Consumer Alert in Washington, D.C., and a science correspondent for Reason magazine. Mr. Fumento was a nominee for the prestigious National Magazine Award. His articles have appeared around the world, including Readers' Digest, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, The New Republic, USA Weekend, The Washington Monthly, Reason, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Policy Review, The Bulletin (Australia), BioScience News & Advocate (New Zealand), and The American Spectator. He's published in such newspapers as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, The Sunday Times of London, The Sunday Telegraph of London, the Jerusalem Post, the Apple Daily (Hong Kong), the Los Angeles Times, Investor's Business Daily, Washington Times, and the Chicago Tribune. 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: The Myth of Heterosexual AIDSScience Under Siege Polluted Science The Fat of the LandBioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World Michael Fumento lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two cats. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:52:02 GMT Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:52:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Hidden within the latest edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluView was this sentence: "The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was below the epidemic threshold." That's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2010/01/18/swine_flu_epidemic_ends_with_a_whimper 1f350e27-5e90-48a8-9000-d8fd5c48b05e Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:52:02 GMT "The boogeyman will get you!" parents sometimes tell misbehaving children. With about 40% of parents saying "no!" to vaccinating their kids for swine flu, apparently health officials think turnabout is fair play. And... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/11/09/the_swine_flu_boogeyman 7df47bc0-e2ac-4936-b48b-b44f6b706aab Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:40 GMT "In keeping with the administration's proactive approach" to swine flu, the White House has announced, President Obama on Saturday declared the disease "a national emergency." It's the second such declaration, with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/10/28/obama_administration's_flu_fearmongering 44dcbf96-abdd-446b-9077-01cc13f538da Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:19:32 GMT There was never doubt that whenever the economy began turning around the Obama administration, and especially the $787 billion stimulus package, would get the credit. "Absolutely" the stimulus package was working,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/08/25/born_again_romer_pushes_stimus_plan_sham b5ef38c9-f97b-4898-b00b-e036f4d9a625 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:04:02 GMT One word keeps appearing in reviews of The Hurt Locker , the critically acclaimed war film: realism. "Realism is the special effect," was the title of one article about the film's producers. "Realism... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/08/03/"hurt_locker's"_necessary_sacrifice_to_reality 90b158e0-3273-4e68-b0ad-6e0b229fd277 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:14:56 GMT "U.S. health officials say swine flu could strike up to 40 percent of Americans over the next two years and as many as several hundred thousand could die." So declares an Associated Press article, the writer of which... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/07/30/figuring_how_to_terrify_us_over_swine_flu 3e699ece-7739-4174-b667-f45435509d58 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:14:06 GMT An age of medical miracles is dawning. Obama administration federal funding rules for embryonic stem cells, or ES cells, will open wide the money floodgates for "the most remarkable potential of any scientific... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/07/17/the_decades_away_dirty_secret_of_stem_cell_research f33497df-cc87-4fef-8e28-9e631771b0aa Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:20:53 GMT Although the "worried well" are still swamping emergency rooms, our pig flu is appearing to be a piglet. But a study in Science magazine claims the outbreak portends a pandemic and the media have gone hog wild over... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/05/21/science_magazine_and_the_who_promote_pandemic_panic 46f77c53-3b37-4b32-98b4-041d9e0e4a98 Thu, 21 May 2009 17:18:51 GMT There's absolute panic over an outbreak of swine flu. "Projections are that this virus will kill 1 million Americans," the nation's top health official has warned. But the date is 1976. And the projection proves off... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/05/01/the_price_of_a_porcine_panic 8f0a55aa-711f-4c3c-bcdc-d4d6ef592824 Fri, 01 May 2009 21:32:36 GMT The F-22 Raptor is "the most capable multirole combat aircraft in production today," according to the think tank Air Power Australia. Yet only 203 have been ordered out of the original Air Force request for almost four... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2009/02/26/raptor_program_must_keep_flying 88429d7a-3d1f-4c8a-b768-1f4466eecb7d Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:46:09 GMT The cover of Time magazine has Barack Obama photoshopped into Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famous convertible, complete with oval-shaped glasses and cigarette holder held between the teeth. "The NEW New Deal," The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2008/12/01/barack_obama_and_the_fdr_myth 1c9b4d39-11c4-4927-b05a-cc916030b0a1 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:49:14 GMT How strange! I spent all three of my Iraqi embeds in western Al Anbar because that's where the war was worst. Birthplace of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and cradle of the Sunni insurgency, graffiti declared it "Graveyard of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2008/09/15/remembering_when_al-anbar_was_lost 276dd78f-b906-4f34-89b0-b7896290bca3 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:38:29 GMT Grant the anti-childhood vaccine fanatics this; they are dogged. No amount of data and no number of studies from any array of sources will sway them from their beliefs - or claimed beliefs - that thimerosal, a mercury http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2008/01/24/time_to_fight_back_against_"angry_paranoid"_anti-vaccinationists 34e35d71-95ac-4103-a3e1-6675b73bc008 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT The UN AIDS program has issued its annual report in which, finally, it doesn't say how many more current HIV infections there are this year. Instead it drops the figure by over six million from its 2006 estimate - from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2007/11/27/un_finally_drops_pc_aids_estimate 5437021d-ba2f-4f3f-99c7-abf9ba6b584a Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:23:40 GMT Mass hysteria is a poor method for allocating medical research resources. Surely we all agree on that in principle. But when it concerns any given hysteria, principle flies out the window. Consider vaccine development... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelFumento/2007/11/14/hysteria-driven_disease_spending_is_killing_us 1b4b5e95-58aa-4b67-a925-c101cc9e48d3 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT