Dan Agin has a Ph.D. in biological psychology and thirty years of laboratory-research experience in neurobiology. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and editor in chief of the online journal "ScienceWeek". He is the author of "Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain".