John Marion Tierney (born March 25, 1953) is a
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
who has worked for the
New York Times since 1990.
Tierney writes a science column,
Findings, and the
TierneyLab blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
for the
Times. The
TierneyLab takes a
contrariann. a person who takes an opposing view, esp. one who rejects the majority opinion, as in economic matters. May also be used as an adjective as in "contrarian investing."...
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 YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, "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 the libertarianism.
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John Marion Tierney (born March 25, 1953) is a
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
who has worked for the
New York Times since 1990.
Tierney writes a science column,
Findings, and the
TierneyLab blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
for the
Times. The
TierneyLab takes a
contrariann. a person who takes an opposing view, esp. one who rejects the majority opinion, as in economic matters. May also be used as an adjective as in "contrarian investing."...
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 YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, "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 the libertarianism. His columns have been critical of rent stabilization, the
war on drugsThe War on Drugs refers to the controversial prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, intended to both define and reduce the illegal drug trade. This initiative includes a set of laws and policies that are intended to...
,
AmtrakThe National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a blend of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union Station...
and compulsory
recyclingRecycling involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower...
. His article "Recycling Is Garbage" broke the
New York Times Magazines hate mail record.
Tierney started his journalism career as an undergraduate at Yale UniversityYale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...
, where he was editor of the Yale Daily NewsThe Yale Daily News is a newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878. The paper's first editors wrote:...
. He went on to work for the Bergen Record
and the Washington StarThe Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record, and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and...
, and has written for magazines such as Science 86
, Health
and Discover
.
In collaboration with novelist Christopher BuckleyChristopher Taylor Buckley is an American political satirist and the author of novels including God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, and, most recently, Losing Mum...
, Tierney co-wrote the comic novel, God Is My Broker
, in parody of financial and spiritual self-help bookSelf-help books are books written with the stated intention to instruct any readers on a number of personal problems. Self-improvement is a term that is a modernized version of self-help, and bookstores use both terms to classify these types of books in the store...
s. He also wrote The Best-Case Scenario Handbook
, a parodyA parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
of the popular Worst-Case Scenario Handbook
series.
External links
New York Times biographical video interview