Seth Mnookin





Seth Mnookin

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April 27, 1972

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Since 2005, Seth has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he’s written about the American media presence in Iraq, Bloomberg News, and Stephen Colbert. In 2002 and 2003, he was a senior writer at Newsweek, where he wrote the media column “Raw Copy” and also covered politics and popular culture.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1994 with a degree in History and Science, and was a 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, he and his wife currently live in Cambridge with their seven-year-old dog, their two-year-old son, and their infant daughter.


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On Tuesday, TLC posted “Why shouldn’t we vaccinate our children,” which was one of the all-time worst pieces written about vaccines. It had outright falsehoods and oodles of misleading information. It was so bad, in fact, that I briefly wondered if it might be a deliberate effort to point out the lunacy of anti-vaccine activists. (It wasn’t.) That afternoon, I pos...

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,063 ratings · 219 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Panic Virus: A True Sto...
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Feeding the Monster: How Mo...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Hard News: Twenty-one Bruta...
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America I Envision
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“Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.”
Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

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