Robin McKie



Profile:
Full name: Robin McKie

Area of interest: Science, Technology, Environment

Journals/Organisation: The Observer

Email: [mailto:robin.mckie@observer.co.uk robin.mckie@observer.co.uk]

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Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/robinmckie

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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/RobinMcKie | http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robin-mckie/13/b56/924



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Career: The Observer: Science Editor since 1982

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 * also writes/has written for: New Statesman, Time Out

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Controversy/Criticism: Why Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change: 'Our science editor condemns television's latest foray into the debate on global warming' - The Observer, 4th March 2007

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Books & Debate:

 * Lasers (1983) OCLC 10070597
 * Technology (1984) OCLC 11547433
 * Nuclear Power (1985) OCLC 12232363
 * Solar power (1985) OCLC 12713652
 * Robots (1986) OCLC 13410988
 * Panic: the story of AIDS (1986) OCLC 13666427
 * The genetic jigsaw: the story of the new genetics (1988) OCLC 17649052
 * Energy (1989) OCLC 18442430
 * The book of man: the Human Genome Project and the quest to discover our genetic heritage (1995) OCLC 31240725 (short-listed for the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Award in 1995)
 * African exodus: the origins of modern humanity (1997) OCLC 36001167
 * Water: a cosmic history (2000) OCLC 43339270 (with Paul Murdin)
 * Dawn of man: the story of human evolution (2000) OCLC 44523480

Latest work: Face of Britain (2006) OCLC 70844709 (published to accompany a Channel 4 series exploring Britain's genetic heritage)

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Remit/Info: Science, technology, environment

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Role: science and technology editor

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Email: [mailto:robin.mckie@observer.co.uk robin.mckie@observer.co.uk]

Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/robinmckie

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Day published: Sunday

Regularity: Weekly

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Articles:

 * Raise a glass of clean water to John Snow - Two hundred years after his birth, we owe much to the London doctor who discovered the cause of cholera - 17th March 2013
 * Climate change: how theatre delivered a dramatic warning about the planet's future - Ten Billion – a scientist's one-man show on environmental woes – has been an unexpected sell-out hit - 12th August 2012
 * Higgs boson: A cause for celebration. But will it be our last great discovery? - It will take more than last week's scientific breakthrough to secure the continued quest for the cosmos's secrets - 8th July 2012
 * and truth have been cast aside by our desire for controversy'' - Last week's report into media science coverage highlighted an over-reliance on pointless dispute - 24th July 2011
 * dark ideology is driving those who deny climate change'' - People who claim that climate science is a conspiracy or the work of charlatans are talking rubbish - 1st August 2010
 * scientists must nail the creationists'' - The Royal Society should take a much stronger stance in opposing religion in the school lab - 14th September 2008


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 * New Statesman articles
 * Profile of Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe: He can roam the cosmos in his mind, but his private life is a shambles. Now he thinks Earth is doomed and the future for mankind is in space - The Observer, 21st October 2001