Biography of Michael Fumento
 Michael
Fumento is an author, journalist, photographer and attorney specializing in
science and health issues. He is currrently director of the American Security Council Foundation, which focuses on Latin American issue, in Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to Townhall and numerous publications.
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 and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania bar.
He has been a science columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service,
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 both 2005 and 2006 he was an embedded journalist in Afghanistan and three times in the volatile western Iraq province of Al Anbar, including the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
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 finalist 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 co-authored two books,
including a No. 2 bestseller in Japan, has written four monographs and has authored five books:
Michael Fumento lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two cats.
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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