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About this Web Site As a part of STATS' mission to address the abuse of science and statistics in the media and public policy debates, we have created this site as a resource to examine the controversies over alcohol abuse. We will keep updating this information as new studies and data become available. |
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Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic, 2007). She is also co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Complete Guide: How You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000). Her book "Help at Any Cost," an investigation into boot camps and tough love programs, was published by Riverhead Books in February 2006, and helped spur Congressional hearings and a Government Accounting Office investigation into deaths and abuses at such programs She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Elle, Salon, Redbook and other major publications. She has also worked in television - first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for PBS' Charlie Rose then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AIDS special for ABC and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, "Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home." She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and to 60 Second Science, the blog of Scientific American.
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Trevor Butterworth received his BA (Hons) and M.Phil from Trinity College Dublin and did graduate work in philosophy and intellectual history at Georgetown University. He received an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded the Sevellon Brown Prize for outstanding knowledge of the history of the American press. Butterworth is a regular contributor to the Financial Times Life and Arts section. He has also written for the Washington Post's BookWorld, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, Salon, Forbes.com and other publications. He was a commentator for the BBC/WGBH show "The World", and is former editor of the media criticism website NewsWatch.org. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. He is a contributor to Blackwell's Companion to Modern Irish Culture. |
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Rebecca Goldin holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mathematics, and a B.A., cum laude from Harvard University. Dr. Goldin did postdoctoral work at University of Maryland before she joined George Mason University, where she is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. She has published numerous research articles in internationally recognized mathematics journals, and regularly speaks at conferences across North America, Europe and Asia. She is the recipient of several awards from the National Science Foundation to support her research in mathematics and education. In 2007 she received the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize from the Associaton of Women in Mathematics and will spend the fall semester at Cornell University on a fellowship. Dr. Goldin joined STATS in September, 2004. Her work for STATS has been published in the Washington Post, the Akron Beacon Journal, the Eugene Register Guard, and on Alternet. She has appeared on NBC, CBS, CNN and NPR. Dr. Goldin's work for STATS is partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant 0606869. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. |
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