12 Facts About Emily Willingham

Emily Jane Willingham was born on 1968 and is an American journalist and scientist.

Emily Willingham's writing focuses on neuroscience, genetics, psychology, health and medicine, and occasionally on evolution and ecology.

Emily Willingham is the joint recipient with David Robert Grimes of the 2014 John Maddox Prize, awarded by science charity Sense about Science, for standing up for science in the face of personal attacks.

Emily Willingham completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at the University of California, San Francisco, from 2004 to 2006, where she studied under Laurence S Baskin.

Emily Willingham's work has been published online at Scientific American, Aeon, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Slate, Undark, Knowable, The Scientist, and others and has appeared in print in several local, regional, and national outlets, including in single-issue publications for Centennial Media.

Emily Willingham was a contributor to the Forbes network for several years and ran an informal blog, "A Life Less Ordinary", which she started in 2007 and which published its last post on November 25,2011.

Emily Willingham's view is that his alleged Asperger's syndrome was not a contributing factor, but that untreated schizophrenia was a more likely cause of his actions.

Emily Willingham was called "one of the sharpest science writers in the blogosphere" by Steve Silberman.

In 2020, Emily Willingham published her next book titled Phallacy.

Emily Willingham has published 44 scientific papers, and, according to Google Scholar, her h-index is 22.

Emily Willingham has published on the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as atrazine.

Emily Willingham stated in 2012 that she identified as having Asperger syndrome, which her son has been diagnosed with, but did not intend to pursue a formal diagnosis.