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Doubt and About logo A web column by Chris Mooney.
  • Déjà vu All Over Again
    How did the Intelligent Design movement publish in a peer reviewed biology journal? A similar--and notorious--story from climate science sheds light on the question.

  • IDing ID
    Is "Intelligent Design" theory really "Creation Science" version 2.0? Not exactly, but the parallels are certainly suggestive.

  • Wake Up Call
    Leading scientists say climate change must finally receive the attention it deserves. True skeptics should agree with them.

  • Learning from Nonsense?
    Hollywood's new disaster blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow, presents climate change cataclysms that no respected scientist considers realistic. But can the hoopla surrounding the film actually educate about the real global warming issue?

  • Don't Listen to Those Pesky Scientists
    Why science adviser John Marburger's defense of the Bush administration's science policies fails.

  • The New Science Wars
    Is George W. Bush's the most anti-science administration in modern times?

  • It Just Takes One
    How an advertisement for Intelligent Design theory made its way into the Harvard Law Review.

  • The Politics of Peer Review
    Expert review of scientific information is usually a good thing. But as a recent White House proposal to expand peer review of government regulatory science shows, there are big exceptions.

  • Abuses of Skepticism
    Doubting is a powerful tool, but it can definitely be taken too far.

  • Not Too "Bright"
    Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett are smart guys, but their campaign to rename religious unbelievers "brights" could use some rethinking.

  • Polling for ID
    The latest pro-Intelligent Design Zogby poll is just one in a series of questionable surveys.

  • King of the Paranormal
    What's up with the Larry King Show's outrageous promotion of UFOs, psychics, and spiritualists?

  • Exonerating the Friedmans
    Skeptics of hypnosis and "recovered memory therapy" will know that Arnold and Jesse Friedman were probably innocent. So did the documentary filmmaker who captured their story: He just decided not to say it.

  • Creationist U.
    Anti-evolutionists have just won two important victories on American university campuses - one legal, one in public relations.

  • The Skeptic's Message Lab
    Some thoughts on new ways to critique alternative medicine.

  • Dini is Served
    A spat at Texas Tech provides a new wrinkle on Darwinism and science education.

  • Happy Old Year
    When it comes to the media's human cloning coverage, we're still in 1997.

  • Conversion Fantasies
    In paranormalist fiction, the "skeptic" character always comes around in the end.

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Skeptics
    Why doubters should celebrate J.K. Rowling's tales of magic and wizardry.

About the Author

Chris Mooney is a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C. His recent articles have included an American Prospect critique of Senator James Inhofe's anti-scientism and a Legal Affairs piece on the "sound science" push to undermine the Endangered Species Act. He is writing a book about the crisis of science politicization in American life.

Chris was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana; he graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1999. Before becoming a freelancer, 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 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.

Besides contributing to magazines and newspapers, every month Chris writes an online column for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, where he serves as a contributing editor. Chris is also a senior correspondent for the American Prospect magazine.

To see a more comprehensive list of Chris's various writings, click here. To contact him or to receive e-mail updates about his recent articles, send an e-mail to moonecc@yahoo.com.

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