Michael Specter was born on 1955 and is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science, technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998.
12 Facts About Michael Specter
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Michael Specter has written for The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Michael Specter has previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard College.
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Michael Specter delivered a TEDtalk titled "The danger of science denial" at TED 2010.
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Michael Specter has written profiles of many people, including Dr Oz, Lance Armstrong, Richard Branson, the ethicist Peter Singer, P Diddy, Manolo Blahnik, AIDS activist Larry Kramer, and PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk.
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Two months prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Michael Specter hosted a meeting at the Milken Institute School of Public Health titled "Universal Flu Vaccine" with Anthony Fauci and several other government officials.
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In 1996, Michael Specter was awarded the Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence for his coverage of the War in Chechnya.
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Michael Specter has twice received the Global Health Council's Annual Excellence in Media Award- for his piece about AIDS in India, "India's Plague" and for one about AIDS and the population crisis in Russia, "The Devastation".
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In 2009, Specter received the Robert P Balles Annual Prize in Critical Thinking for his book Denialism.
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Michael Specter received the 2014 Mirror Prize for best Profile, from the Newhouse School of Communication, for "The Operator," about Mehmet Oz.
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Michael Specter was previously married to Alessandra Stanley, a former television critic for The New York Times.
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Michael Specter is a 1977 graduate of Vassar College, where he majored in English.