This page includes links to some of the publicity on my book, Galileo’s Middle Finger. I’ve also given about 40 invited lectures on this book, and the book has been widely used in colleges and universities. By clicking here, you can see examples of uses of the book in courses.
Broadcast media, including podcasts and talk recordings (samples):
Current State, WKAR Radio, May 12, 2016
Savage Lovecast, May 3, 2016
The 21st, Illinois Public Media, May 3, 2016
Plenary Address for SSTAR, April 15, 2016
10-Minute Writers’ Workshop, New Hampshire Public Radio, April 6, 2016
Uncharted/Berkleyside, March 9, 2016
The David Pakman Show, March 8, 2016
WORT, March 1, 2016
Heterodox Academy, February 18, 2016
Unorthodox, the podcast of Tablet, January 28, 2016
How Do We Fix It?, January 12, 2016
Distillations podcast, December 1, 2015
ISIR Constance Holden Address, October 12, 2015
The Infectious Myth podcast, October 21, 2015
Up Close on The Jewish Channel, July 20, 2015
Science for the People podcast, May 22, 2015
Australian Public Radio, May 18, 2015
WBEZ Morning Shift, May 12, 2015
American Freethought podcast, May 4, 2015
Modern Notion podcast, May 1, 2015
CBC (Canada) Radio, April 17, 2015
BBC Scotland Radio, March 29, 2015
Chicago Tonight, March 19, 2015
Savage Lovecast, March 10, 2015
Virtually Speaking Science, March, 2015
Op-eds/articles by Alice Dreger since GMF’s publication (samples):
“How Do You Talk to Your Kids about Sex?” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2016
“Tweeting about The Talk,” Pacific Standard, May 2, 2016
“Should Female Athletes Have to Prove They’re Women?” Los Angeles Times, reprinted in the Dallas Morning News, August 3, 2015
“The Big Problem with Outlawing Gender Conversion Therapies,” WIRED, June 4, 2015
“What If Not All Parents Who Question Vaccines Are Foolish and Anti-Science?” New Statesman, June 4, 2015
“This Is Not the Week I Expected to Have,” The Stranger, April 20, 2015
“What I Learned When I Attended My Son’s ‘Abstinence-Based’ Sex Ed Class,” The Guardian, April 21, 2015
“I Sat in on My Son’s Sex Ed Class, and I Was Shocked by What I Heard,” The Stranger, April 15, 2015
“Malta Bans Surgery on Intersex Children,” The Stranger, April 3, 2015
“Was Jahi McMath’s Case Preventable?” (with Helen Haskell), Pacific Standard, March 13, 2015
“Yes, We Are Seeing More Attacks on Academic Freedom,” Retraction Watch, March 12, 2015
“Stirring the Pot: How to Navigate the Slings and Arrows of Conducting ‘Controversial’ Research,” The Scientist, March 1, 2015
Print news on my work since GMF’s publication (samples):
Katie Cook, “Researcher Reacts to Changes in EL Schools’ Sex Ed Plan,” WKAR.org, May 12, 2016
Sara Reardon, “The Spectrum of Sex Development,” Nature, republished in Scientific American, May 11, 2016
Faye Flam, “Men’s Restroom or Women’s? Nature’s Never that Simple,” Bloomberg View, reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sante Fe New Mexican, etc., April 24, 2016
Sarah Ditum, “We Have to Teach Girls about More Than Just Consent,” New Statesman, April 20, 2016
Danny Nett, “Intersex Conditions Pose Unique Challenges for UNC, Duke Doctors,” Daily Tarheel, April 13, 2016
Anonymous, “Best Books of 2015,” Society for Midland Authors, April 12, 2016
Deanna Isaacs, “University Professors Claim Title IX Abuse in New Report,” Chicago Reader, April 6, 2016
Robby Soave, “American Ascociation of University Professors Comes Out Swinging Against Title IX Inquisition,” Reason, March 28, 2016
Samantha Olson, “The Curious Life of Conjoined Twins: How Sharing a Body Changes the Way They Think, Drive, and Date,” Medical Daily, March 23, 2016
Mary Ellen Bell, “Taking a Stand: Sex Researcher Will Talk at UW about Academic Freedom,” Isthmus, March 3, 2016
“Taking a Stand,” interview with WISCAPE (Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Post-Secondary Education), February 29, 2016
Greg Lukianoff, “The 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2016,” Huffington Post Blog, February 17, 2016
Harriet Hall, “Persecution of Scientists Whose Findings Are Perceived as Politically Incorrect,” Science-Based Medicine, February 16, 2016
The Bookish Editors, “Judging Books by Their Covers: 2015” (best covers of 2015), Bookish, December 18, 2015
Sarah Galo, “10 of John Green’s Favorite Books that You Should Read,” Bustle, December 21, 2015
Tracy Jan, “Ben Carson’s Surgeries Separated Twins, Didn’t Always Save Them,” The Boston Globe, November 13, 2015
Casey Quinlan, “Parent Wanted Their Child to Have an Accurate Sex Education But the School Resisted,” Think Progress, November 10, 2015
Jessica Hamzelou, “Gay or Straight? Saliva Test Can Predict Male Sexual Orientation,” New Scientist, October 8, 2015
Robert Coolman, “The Ishango Bone: The World’s Oldest Period Tracker,” The Daily Beast, October 6, 2015
Kelly Gonsalves, “Former Professor Calls for University to Apologize,” Daily Northwestern, October 1, 2015
Jessica Baron, Interview for the History of Science Society Newsletter, October 2015
Geoffrey R. Stone and Will Creeley, “Restoring Free Speech on Campus,” Washington Post, reprinted in Chicago Tribune, September 28, 2015
Azeen Ghorayshi, “Intersex Surgeries Are a Human Rights Violation, Says U.N. Group,” Buzzfeed News, September 19, 2015
Mara Kerkez, “UNM Departments Host Talk, ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’” UMN Newsroom, September 12, 2015
Coleen Flaherty, “The Rise of ‘Quit Lit,’” Slate as reprinted from Inside Higher Ed, September 11, 2015
Irene Ogrizek, “Alice Dreger and the Policing of Academic Thought,” Spiked, September 9, 2015
Medha Imam, “Northwestern University Professor Resigns in Protest of Academic Censorship,” USA Today, September 1, 2015
Bob Grant, “Censored Professor Quits,” The Scientist, August 27, 2015
Jack Grove, “U.S. Bioethicist Quits over Censorship Row at Northwestern University,” Times Higher Education, August 26, 2015
Colleen Flaherty, “Censored into Resignation?” Inside Higher Ed, August 26, 2015
Tom Bartlett, “Star Scholar Resigns from Northwestern, Saying It Doesn’t Respect Academic Freedom,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 26, 2015
Geoffrey R. Stone, “Academic Freedom and the Meaning of Courage,” Huffington Post Blog, August 25, 2016
Lisa Black, “Northwestern University Bioethics Professor Resigns over Censorship Claim,” Chicago Tribune, August 25, 2015
Tyler Kingkade, “Noted Author Resigns from Northwestern in Censorship Protest,” Huffington Post, August 25, 2016
Angela Chen, “Interview with Alice Dreger,” The Rumpus, August 12, 2015
Azeen Ghorayshi, “Born In Between: Should Doctors Operate on Intersex Babies?” Buzzfeed, August 5, 2016
David Hunter, “Galileo’s Middle Finger,” BMJ Blogs, August 5, 2015
Jyoti Madhusoodanan, “Bioethics Accused of Doing More Harm than Good,” Nature, August 5, 2015
Amby Burfoot, “Runners, Experts Concerned about Ruling on Women with Naturally High Testosterone,” Runners’ World, July 31, 2015
Beryl Lieff Benderly, “The Value—and Risk—of Activism,” Science, July 30, 2015
Azeen Ghorayshi, “Champion Sprinter Wins Landmark Case to Let Her Compete as a Woman,” Buzzfeed News, July 27, 2015
John K. Wilson, “Northwestern’s Censorship Board,” Academe Blog, July 12, 2015
Beryl Lieff Benderly, “Taking the Road Less Traveled,” Science, July 8, 2015
Tyler Kingkade, “Northwestern Magazine May Close in ‘Vetting Committee’ Standoff,” Huffington Post, June 22, 2015
Leon Neyfakh, “The Ethics of Ethnography,” Slate, June 18, 2015
Coleen Flaherty, “Sexorship at Northwestern?”, Inside Higher Ed, June 17, 2015
Tyler Kingkade, “Northwestern Faculty Magazine Censored over Article about Nurse Blow Job,” Huffington Post, June 17, 2015
Lisa Black, “Story of Sex with Nurse Prompts Censorship Claims at Northwestern,” Chicago Tribune, reprinted in Journal of Nursing, June 17, 2015
Robby Soave, “It’s Not Just Kipnis: Northwestern Censored Another Prof Over Midly Provocative Sex Views,” Reason, June 16, 2015
Geoffrey R. Stone, “Academic Freedom Under Siege,” Huffington Post Blog, June 1, 2015
Arielle Duhaime-Ross, “Sports Policies that Exclude Women with High Testosterone Must End, Experts Say,” The Verge, May 22, 2015
Lou Agosta, “Galileo’s Middle Finger: What Happens When Science Collides with ‘Empathy,’” Social Justice Solutions, May 20, 2015
Mandy Stadtmiller, “Why Free Will Is the Best Approach to Sex Education,” Mashable, May 9, 2015
Heeseung Kim, “10 Amazing Moms of the Past Year to Honor This Mother’s Day,” Cosmopolitan, May 6, 2015
Jon Green, “Chlamydia Outbreak at Texas High School with No Sex Ed Policy,” American Blog, May 5, 2015
Tara Culp-Ressler, “Inside Federally-Funded Abstinence-Only Education: ‘Flushing Taxpayer Dollars Down the Toilet,’” Think Progress, May 4, 2015
Heidi Stevens, “Sex Ed Programs that Discuss Gender Balance Are More Effective, Study Finds,” Chicago Tribune, April 28, 2015
Roger Pielke Jr., “Why Discrediting Controversial Academics Such a Bjorn Lomborg Damages Science,” The Guardian, April 23, 2015
Jessica Chasmar, “Alice Dreger, Northwestern University Ethicist, Live Tweets Criticism of Son’s Abstinence Class,” Washington Times, April 21, 2015
Amanda Chatel, “This Is the History of Sex Education, Because If You Thought It Was Bad Now, Wait Until You See What They Taught in 1950,” Bustle, April 20, 2015
Anonymous, “Northwestern University Ethicist Live Tweets Her Son’s Sex-Ed Class on Abstinence,” Fox News, April 20, 2015
Lindsey Tanner, “Intersex Surgeries Spark Move Away from Drastic Treatment,” NBC, April 27, 2015
Sarah Kaplan, “What Happened When a Medical Professor Live-Tweeted Her Son’s Sex-Ed Class on Abstinence,” Washington Post, April 17, 2015
Lori Grisham, “Mom Live Tweets Criticism of Son’s Sex-Ed Class,” USA Today, April 17, 2015
Stephanie McNeal, “A Mom Live-Tweeted Her Son’s ‘Abstinence-Based’ Sex Ed Class,” Buzzfeed News, April 16, 2015
Alex Hutchinson, “An Imperfect Dividing Line,” The New Yorker, March 27, 2015
Tom Bartlett, “Reluctant Crusader: Why Alice Dreger’s Writing on Sex and Science Makes Liberals So Angry,” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 2015
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