Speaker biographies
Jon Entine is an adjunct fellow at AEI, a columnist for the U.K.-based magazine Ethical Corporation, and a writer on business ethics, science, and public policy. His newest book, Abraham’s Children (Grand Central Publishing, 2007), focuses on the nexus of race, disease, and identity in Western culture. He previously wrote and edited the AEI Press books Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (2006) and Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (2005). Before launching his writing career, Mr. Entine was a network television news writer and producer from 1975 to 1994, winning more than twenty awards, including two Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the former Soviet Union. While at NBC News, he produced and co-wrote Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, which won the award for best feature film at the Forty-Fifth Annual International Sport Film Festival in 1990, and which inspired his book Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk about It (PublicAffairs, 2000).
Charles Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar at AEI. His first book, Losing Ground, which advanced the claim that the Great Society anti-poverty programs were hurting the poor, was widely criticized when it was published in 1984. Twelve years later, it was being credited as the intellectual inspiration for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His 1994 New York Times bestseller, The Bell Curve, coauthored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ on life outcomes in America, but it has found support from a growing body of scientific evidence in years since. Mr. Murray has written many books and scores of articles for publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the Washington Post, and he has been the subject of cover stories by Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. He was named by National Journal as one of fifty people who make a difference in national policymaking.
Sally Satel, M.D., is a resident scholar at AEI and the staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994 she was a policy fellow with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and medicine, and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in numerous magazines and journals. Dr. Satel is author of Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999) and PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001), and is coauthor, with Christina Hoff Sommers, of One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin’s Press, 2005).
Laurie Zoloth is professor of medical ethics, humanities, and religion Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Previously, she was professor of ethics and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University and the president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Ms. Zoloth is a member of the multiple organizations, including NASA National Advisory Council, the NASA Planetary Protection Advisory Committee, the executive committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and she is the chair of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Bioethics Advisory Board. Her current research projects include work on emerging issues in medical and research genetics and the ethical issues in stem cell research. Ms. Zoloth was awarded the NIH Ethical Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome Grant and has been named a principal investigator for the International Project on Judaism and Genetics.
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