Chris Mooney (journalist)

Christopher Cole Chris Mooney is an American journalist and author of four books including the 2005 New York Times Best Seller The Republican War on Science. Mooneys writing focuses on subjects such as global warming and the creationevolution controversy, and he has been described as one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics.

Mooney was born in Mesa, Arizona, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of his parents were college English professors. He attended Isidore Newman School before entering Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1999. His interest in science, and especially biology and the impact of Charles Darwin, was strongly influenced by his grandfather Gerald A. Cole, a biologist at Arizona State University and author of Textbook of Limnology, a noted book in the field. Mooney is the oldest of three siblings his sister Kate Mooney is a freelance writer and his brother Davy Mooney is a jazz guitarist.

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