Michael Specter
Michael Specter is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. His audiobook “ Fauci ” came out in 2020.
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Millions of people have sworn off wheat, but there’s little science to support them. Michael Specter investigates.
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A Profile of the TV doctor and Columbia University cardiologist Dr. Oz, who rose to fame on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show, and, after the article was published, entered politics as a Republican supporter of Donald Trump. Michael Specter reports.
Bacteria make us sick. Do they also keep us alive?
Where will synthetic biology lead us?
An excessive carbon footprint is rapidly becoming the modern equivalent of wearing a scarlet letter, Michael Specter wrote, in 2008.
The losing war on junk e-mail.
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The business world’s high roller is betting everything on biofuels.
Michael Specter on Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the radical animal-rights organization with a Barnum-like genius for attracting attention.
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How did Lance Armstrong manage the greatest comeback in sports history?
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From 2002: Michael Specter writes that the man who warned America about AIDS can’t stop fighting hard—and loudly.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Monsanto and the environmental movement's opposition to genetically-altered crops... Tells about Greenpeace's efforts to…
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Michael Specter’s Profile of the eccentric and prolific shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
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PROFILE of Australian ethicist Peter Singer, 53, recently appointed to the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics chair at Princeton... Tells about the case…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Icelandic Health Care Database, and biotechnology... Writer tells about Icelandic scientist Kari Stefansson and his genetic …