Chris Mooney is a contributing editor to Science Progress and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist and former congressional staffer and radio jock now based at Duke University. Together they blog at The Intersection, helped to found ScienceDebate2008, and co-authored the forthcoming book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future.

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