Judith Hooper (born April 15, 1949, in

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"Judith Hooper". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Gale. October 19, 2005. Retrieved August 12, 2008.) is an American journalist. Hooper has worked as an editor and writer for the magazine '' Omni''. With her husband,

Dick Teresi Dick Teresi is an American writer. He is a co-author of '' The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?'' He is also a former editor of '' Omni''. Career With his wife Judith Hooper, Teresi has coauthored ''The Three Poun ...

, she co-wrote the books ''The Three-Pound Universe'' (1986) and ''Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman? A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness'' (1990). She is also the author of the controversial ''

Of Moths and Men ''Of Moths and Men'' is a book by journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford. The book specifically concerns Bernard Kettlewell's experiments on the peppered moth which were intended as exp ...

'' (2002), which argues that the peppered moth experiments carried out by

Bernard Kettlewell Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (24 February 1907 – 11 May 1979) was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who performed research on the influence of industrial melanism on peppered moth (''Biston betularia'') coloration, sho ...

were flawed. Hooper writes in the book's prologue, "I am not a creationist, but to be uncritical about science is to make it into a dogma." However, geneticist

Michael Majerus Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus (13 February 1954 – 27 January 2009) was a British geneticist and professor of evolution at the University of Cambridge. He was also a teaching fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He was an enthusiast in Darwin' ...

has taken issue with many of Hooper's claims about Kettlewell, concluding that she misunderstood natural selection and the details of peppered moth predation.Michael E. N. Majerus, Industrial Melanism in the Peppered Moth
"''Biston betularia'': An Excellent Teaching Example of Darwinian Evolution in Action"
''Evolution: Education and Outreach'', , 2008.

Bibliography

* ''Of Moths and Men'', 2002 * ''Alice in bed, a novel'', 2015

References

External links

Official website
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