Gary Taubes

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About Me

Gary Taubes was born in Rochester, New York on April 30, 1956. He studied applied physics as an undergraduate at Harvard and has a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia (1981). He began writing and reporting on science and medicine for Discover magazine in 1982. As a free-lance journalist, he has written for Science, where he has been a contributing correspondent since 1993, for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Playboy and a host of other publications. He has won numerous awards for his reporting including the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (Taubes is the only print journalist to win this award three times.) Since the mid-1980s, Taubes has focused his reporting on controversial science, on the excruciatingly difficult job of establishing reliable knowledge and on the scientific tools and methodology needed to do so. Taubes is the author of Nobel Dreams (Random House 1987) and Bad Science, The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (Random House, 1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. His latest book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease was published by Knopf in October, 2007.