Michael Fumento

Michael Fumento is best known for his writings about myths and hysterias in science and medicine, such as those described in his books, The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, Science Under Siege, Polluted Science, The Fat of the Land, and Bioevolution. He is also known for his reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan, where he embedded with the Navy SEALs and the 101st Airborne.

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Astronomy Lost in Space [long_description] Sending to humans into space, Michael Fumento argues, is an enormous waste of time, money, and resources. Fumento claims that there is precious little to be gained from such endeavors and that previous purported benefits from the human space program have not amounted to much.
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Economics State of the Union [long_description] Is fusion really the energy of the future? Michael Fumento explores some of the many false starts in the development of controlled nuclear fusion and considers its current prospects, including inertial and magnetic confinement, inertial electrostatic confinement, and compact reactors.
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Economics The Nuclear Reaction [long_description] A range of economic, environmental, and physical factors all combine to make nuclear power by far the best choice for future American electricity production. Journalist Michael Fumento argues against wind and solar power.
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Statistics Reproductive Disorders [long_description] In biomedical research, good news is not only admired but indispensable. Negative results are less likely to be published than positive results; the trend is increasing at the rate of about six percent per year. A 2014 survey of social scientists found them largely unwilling to pass along bad news: “Why bother?” was the most commonly given explanation.
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Statistics An Outbreak of Epidemiological Hysteria [long_description] Tuberculosis continues to kill more people per day than have died in total since the Ebola outbreak began. The World Health Organization has generated alarm by predicting the wild growth of the epidemic—yet has done so by ignoring epidemiological principles successfully applied since the nineteenth century. Ebola infections may have already peaked.