Sharon Begley

Sharon Begley is an American journalist. She wrote a science column for Newsweek. Begley also contributed to The Daily Beast[1]

Biography

Begley graduated from Yale University in 1977 [2] and then began working at Newsweek, where she has spent most of her career. From 2002 to 2007, she wrote the "Science Journal" column in the Wall Street Journal.[3] In 2007, Begley's Newsweek cover-story on climate change focused on what she called the "denial machine." Her article received widespread, "sometimes-furious" criticism.[4] She is the author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, as well as the co-author of The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, along with psychiatrist Jeffrey M. Schwartz.

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Books

References

  1. ↑ "Speaker Biographies A to L: The Aspen Institute". Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Gellman, Lindsay (20 January 2010). "Science Publications Suffer". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Sharon Begley-Newsweek". Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  4. ↑ Gellman, Lindsay (1 October 2007). "Newsweek's Hoax Cover Story Raises Ire of Deniers and also Criticism from Within". The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media. Retrieved 9 January 2011.

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