Michael Fumento is freelance investigative reporter, author, attorney, business consultant, and popular speaker who specializes in science and health issues and misinformation cascades. He received his B.A. while an Army paratrooper, is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, and member of the Pennsylvania bar.

He is widely considered the nation’s top authority on countering “misinformation cascades,” in which a bit of information rolls downhill picking up size and momentum until it often crushes everything in its path. Fumento has debunked over 70, beginning with the heterosexual AIDS “explosion,” and more recently the phony swine flu “pandemic.” He’s currently leading the opposition to the Toyota hysteria. As Publisher’s Weekly stated, he has “a knack for debunking popular beliefs and revealing the true state of things.” Fumento’s research-intensive style has been praised by The New York Times Book Review, which has noted, “His arguments, statistics and perceptions appear almost as irrefutable as they are controversial.”

Fumento has been a nationally syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, a legal writer for the Washington Times, a science correspondent for Reason magazine, editorial writer for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and was the first "National Issues" reporter for Investor’s Business Daily. He has embedded four times in Iraq and Afghanistan, including with the Navy SEALs and 101st Airborne. Gen. David Petraeus called his article The New Band of Brothers “Great stuff with a great unit in a very tough neighborhood!”

Versatility is one of his hallmarks, and his articles comprise over 70 subject areas viewable at www.fumento.com and on his CV.

Mr. Fumento was the 1994 Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and has been a fellow with Hudson Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and Consumer Alert in Washington, D.C. A finalist for the prestigious National Magazine Award, his articles have appeared around the world including in such magazines as Readers’ Digest, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Forbes.com, USA Weekend, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, Reason, Policy Review, The American Spectator, Nature Medicine, The Spectator (London), a3Umwelt (Austria), and The Bulletin (Australia).

He’s appeared in such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Sunday Times of London, Sunday Telegraph of London, and the Jerusalem Post. 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, the History Channel, 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 and co-authored two more, including:

• The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS (with excerpt here)
• Science Under Siege
• Polluted Science
• The Fat of the Land (with excerpt here)
• BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World

Michael Fumento lives in Arlington, Virginia with his two cats: one nice and one very naughty.