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John Marion Tierney (born March 25, 1953) is an American journalist and author who has worked for the ''New York Times'' since 1990. ==Career and background== Tierney writes a science column, ''Findings'', for the Times. He previously wrote the ''TierneyLab'' blog〔(TierneyLab )〕 for the ''Times''. The ''TierneyLab'' took a contrarian view about science and society: In 2005 and 2006, he was a columnist on the ''Times'' Op-Ed page, before which he wrote a column about New York, "The Big City", that ran in the ''New York Times Magazine'' and the Metro section from 1994 to 2002. Tierney identifies himself as a libertarian and has become increasingly identified with libertarianism. His columns have been critical of rent stabilization, the war on drugs, Amtrak and compulsory recycling. His 1996 article "Recycling Is Garbage" broke the ''New York Times Magazines hate mail record.〔http://www.reason.com/news/show/33320.html〕 Joseph J. Romm has written that Tierney is one of the "influential but misinformed" skeptics who have helped prevent the U.S. from taking action on climate change. In his 2007 book, ''Hell and High Water,'' Romm cites, and claims to refute, what he calls Tierney's "misinformation".〔Joseph Romm. ''Hell and High Water: The Global Warming Solution''. Harper Perrenial, 2007. p103-104〕 In 2007 Tierney wrote a column describing ''Silent Spring'' — Rachel Carson's 1962 book on the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment — as a "hodgepodge of science and junk science" whose rhetoric still "drowns out real science," such as the work of agricultural bacteriologist I. L. Baldwin. Among those who have criticized the column for alleged errors of fact and misrepresentation are Tim Lambert,〔(John Tierney's Bad Science ). June 6, 2007. Tim Lambert〕 Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes,〔Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes ''Merchants of Doubt'', 2010, p.223〕 and Merrill Goozner.〔(Carson Bashing and the Ill-Informed DDT Campaign ). June 5, 2007. Merrill Goozner〕 Tierney started his journalism career as an undergraduate at Yale University, where he was co-editor of the ''Yale Daily News Magazine''. He went on to work for the ''Bergen Record'' and the ''Washington Star'', and has written for magazines such as ''Science 86'', ''Health'' and ''Discover''. In collaboration with novelist Christopher Buckley, Tierney co-wrote the comic novel ''God Is My Broker'', in parody of financial and spiritual self-help books. He also wrote ''The Best-Case Scenario Handbook'', a parody of the popular ''Worst-Case Scenario Handbook'' series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Tierney (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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