10 Facts About Seth Mnookin

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Seth Mnookin was born on April 27,1972 and is an American writer and journalist.

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Seth Mnookin is the media reporter for Undark Magazine's podcast and contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

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Seth Mnookin graduated from Harvard University with a degree in history and science in 1994 and was named a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in 2004.

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Seth Mnookin began covering the team right before they won the 2004 World Series, and ended up spending more than a year living with the team and was given a key to Fenway Park His book, "Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts and Nerve Took a Team to the Top", chronicled the history of the team from 2001 to 2006, the first half-decade of the John W Henry-Tom Werner ownership, and includes details about Theo Epstein's abbreviated departure from the team in late 2005.

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Seth Mnookin additionally focuses on the now-discredited Andrew Wakefield and his work as a main player in the vaccines-cause-autism argument.

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Seth Mnookin began his career in the mid '90s as a rock critic at a webzine called Addicted to Noise.

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Seth Mnookin has written for many newspapers and magazines, including GQ, New York magazine, Wired, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

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On October 7,2012, Seth Mnookin wrote an article of childhood vaccination entitled "Why So Many Parents Are Delaying or Skipping Vaccines" for the online portion of Parade magazine describing the reasoning of parents who either delay or skip their children's recommended vaccinations and the danger such logic may pose.

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Seth Mnookin participated in coverage of the search for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, following the brothers from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Seth Mnookin has reviewed books about science and society for The New York Times Book Review.