FACTSHEET: Michael Fumento
DETAILS
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute (1998-present)
Contributing Legal Writer, Washington Times.
Editorial Writer, Rocky Mountain News.
Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine (Reason Foundation).
Former Brookes Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Former Fellow, Consumer Alert.
A self-styled "myth buster," Michael Fumento has authored "The Myth of Heterosexual Aids," "Science Under Siege, Balancing Technology and the Environment," "Polluted Science," "BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World" and "Fat of the Land". He also has a weekly self-syndicated column that has run in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit News, Orange County Register, the Sacramento Bee and elsewhere.
Fumento has written about global warming, pesticides, obesity, breast implants, second hand smoke, and a wide range of environmental and health issues from a "sound science" perspective.
Fumento was included in the National Center for Public Policy Research's Guide (1996) as public policy expert on "General Environmental Issues, Alleged risk of chlorine and Innovative Environmental Solutions."
Michael Fumento has a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law (1985) and a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina. Fumento hosts his own website featuring his compiled writings, www.fumento.com.
KEY QUOTES
"So there's a bit of science to global warming, but it's mostly a lot of hotheads running around who see it as an opportunity to wreak havoc on world development. "
Source: Fumento Interview, Right Wing News.
17 June, 1999
"Though alarmists tell us repeatedly that a "consensus of 2,500 climate scientists" have said global warming is real, man-made, and dangerous, it's flagrant fibbery. This refers to a 1996 UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that had fewer than 2,000 people total, of whom only a small number were climate scientists."
Source: "Americans Giving Global Warming the Cold Shoulder," Michael Fumento. June 17, 1999
"So there's a bit of science to global warming, but it's mostly a lot of hotheads running around who see it as an opportunity to wreak havoc on world development. "
Source: Fumento Interview, Right Wing News.
17 June, 1999
"Though alarmists tell us repeatedly that a "consensus of 2,500 climate scientists" have said global warming is real, man-made, and dangerous, it's flagrant fibbery. This refers to a 1996 UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that had fewer than 2,000 people total, of whom only a small number were climate scientists."
Source: "Americans Giving Global Warming the Cold Shoulder," Michael Fumento. June 17, 1999
DEEDS
Fumento wrote a report for the American Council on Science and Health which claimed suits for medical breast implants are not based upon science.
Source: ACSH website 4/04
Fumento attacked the Environmental Working Group's "Organophosphates in Children's Food" report in April of 1998 under the auspices of Atlantic Legal Foundation in the Wall Street.(http://www.consumeralert.org/fumento/foodact.htm)
Source: Consumer Alert Website
Fumento wrote a report for the American Council on Science and Health which claimed suits for medical breast implants are not based upon science.
Source: ACSH website 4/04
Fumento attacked the Environmental Working Group's "Organophosphates in Children's Food" report in April of 1998 under the auspices of Atlantic Legal Foundation in the Wall Street.(http://www.consumeralert.org/fumento/foodact.htm)
Source: Consumer Alert Website
EVENTS
Junk Science: A Hazard to Your Health
http://www.pacificresearch.org/events/1998/98-06_jun.html
The relationship of Michael Fumento to the event: Speaker
Junk Science: A Hazard to Your Health
http://www.pacificresearch.org/events/1998/98-06_jun.html
The relationship of Michael Fumento to the event: Speaker
ORGANIZATIONS
Hudson Institute
Source: Hudson Institute website 4/04
Reason Foundation
Source: Reason website 4/04
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: CEI website, 3/04
Consumer Alert
Source: CLEAR d-base
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Source: CLEAR d-base
CFACT - Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Fumento
SOURCES
CLEAR d-base
CLEAR d-base
CLEAR d-base
CLEAR d-base
Consumer Alert Website
http://www.consumeralert.org/StaffAdvisors.htm
Consumer Alert Website
http://www.consumeralert.org/StaffAdvisors.htm
CEI website, 3/04
http://www.cei.org
CEI website, 3/04
http://www.cei.org
Reason website 4/04
website for the Reason Foundation (as well as Reason Magazine and Reason Public Policy Institute).
http://www.reason.org
Reason website 4/04
website for the Reason Foundation (as well as Reason Magazine and Reason Public Policy Institute).
http://www.reason.org
ACSH website 4/04
http://www.acsh.org/
ACSH website 4/04
http://www.acsh.org/
Hudson Institute website 4/04
http://www.hudson.org
Hudson Institute website 4/04
http://www.hudson.org
Fumento Interview, Right Wing News.
John Hawkins interviews Michael Fumento on a wide variety of issues.
http://rightwingnews.com/interviews/fumento.php)
Fumento Interview, Right Wing News.
John Hawkins interviews Michael Fumento on a wide variety of issues.
http://rightwingnews.com/interviews/fumento.php)
"Americans Giving Global Warming the Cold Shoulder," Michael Fumento. June 17, 1999
http://www.fumento.com/global.html
"Americans Giving Global Warming the Cold Shoulder," Michael Fumento. June 17, 1999
http://www.fumento.com/global.html
Tech Central Station Bio - Fumento
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biofumentomichael.html
Tech Central Station Bio - Fumento
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biofumentomichael.html
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06
www.CFACT.org
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06
www.CFACT.org