Charles Piller

Charles Piller is an American investigative journalist and author who writes for Science magazine as of 2024.[1] His focus is on health and biological warfare.[1]

Journalism

Prior to writing at Science, Piller was an associate editor at Macworld magazine[2] and wrote for the Los Angeles Times,[3] the STAT website,[4] and The Sacramento Bee.[5][6] At the Times, he investigated the impact of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Africa.[7]

In July 2022, he authored an investigation published in Science that questioned the authenticity of images used in Sylvain Lesné's research on Alzheimer's disease at the University of Minnesota Medical School.[8][9][10]

Center for Public Integrity

Along with Charles Lewis and Alejandro Benes, Piller was a founding member of the Center for Public Integrity, where he served as board chair.[11][12][13][14]

Books

  • Gene Wars: Military Control over the New Genetic Technologies (with Keith R. Yamamoto), Beech Tree Books ISBN 978-0688070502 [15]
  • The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism, University of California Press ISBN 978-0520082021

Awards and honors

Piller was recognized with the 2016 Online Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for an investigation of clinical trials, together with Natalia Bronshtein, while at STAT.[16][17] In 2014, the First Amendment Coalition honored him with the Free Speech & Open Government Award for his Sacramento Bee investigation of construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge that led to legislative changes in California to enhance "transparency and accountability".[5] Evident Change (formerly the National Council on Crime & Delinquency) recognized Piller, along with Deborah Anderluh and Amy Pyle, for 2010 reporting at The Sacramento Bee on "CA Prisons: Behavior Modification Experiments and Suppression of Due Process".[6] In 2008, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene awarded him, along with Doug Smith, their Communications Award for reporting in the Los Angeles Times of "Unintended Victims of Gates Foundation Generosity".[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Charles Piller". Science. Archived from the original on April 3, 2024. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "Someone's watching American workers". United Press International. May 21, 1993. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Communications Award". American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  4. ^ "Charles Piller: Contributing Writer". STAT. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Announcing FAC's 2014 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners". First Amendment Coalition. December 1, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "2010 PASS Award Winner" (PDF). National Council on Crime & Delinquency. 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  7. ^ "Charles Piller". The Nation. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  8. ^ Wurzer C, Woldeslassie A, Mikus M (August 1, 2022). "Questions raised surrounding images connected to U of M Alzheimer's research". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  9. ^ Hiti J (July 25, 2022). "Was Alzheimer's research set back by doctored information in a 'groundbreaking' study?". WCCO Radio. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
  10. ^ Piller C (21 July 2022). "Blots on a field?". Science. 377 (6604): 358–363. Bibcode:2022Sci...377..358P. doi:10.1126/science.add9993. PMID 35862524. S2CID 250953611.
  11. ^ "Geneva Overholser Named Chair Of Center For Public Integrity". Editor & Publisher. June 27, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  12. ^ Lewis C (June 20, 2014). "25 years, countless investigations and 935 lies". Yahoo! News. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  13. ^ "The Center for Public Integrity: Defending Democracy with a Better Informed Citizenry" (PDF). Carnegie Results. Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2012. p. 2. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  14. ^ Keiger D (November 2000). "An 'i' Toward Tough Journalism". Johns Hopkins magazine. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  15. ^ Kelves D (8 May 1988). "The Rebirth of American Biological Warfare : Gene Wars : Military Control Over the New Genetic Technologies by Charles Piller and Keith R. Yamamoto". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  16. ^ "2016 Online Gold: Charles Piller, Natalia Bronshtein". American Association for the Advancement of Science. December 13, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  17. ^ "Major awards for STAT". STAT. Retrieved July 26, 2022.