Charles Seife is the author of Proofiness, Decoding the Universe, Alpha & Omega, Sun in a Bottle, and Zero, which won the PEN/ Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction book and was named a New York Times Notable Book. A professor of journalism at New York University, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Science, New Scientist, Scientific American, Wired, Slate, ProPublica, The Economist, and many other publications. He lives in New York City.
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Medical Fraud Missing From Public Record
An investigation of the FDA claims the agency isn’t doing enough to expose instances of fraud and misconduct.
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A Web of Doubt
Author Charles Seife spots the falsehoods and fakes that make their way onto the information super highway.
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Sock Puppets on Steroids: The Internet’s Fake Personalities
An excerpt from “Virtual Unreality: Just Because The Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?”