Name Hank Campbell | ||
Born 10 September 1965 (age 58) ( 1965-09-10 ) Williamsport, Pennsylvania Occupation Science media personality, book author Books Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left | ||
A Tale of Automobiles by Hank Campbell
Hank Campbell (born 10 September 1965 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania) is an American science media personality most notable as the founder of the Science 2.0 movement and website of the same name in 2006. On July 7, 2015, Campbell was announced as the new president of the American Council on Science and Health.
Contents
Science articles
Campbell began writing in 2006 and has written over 100 pieces on Science 2.0, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Wired. Primary topics are science, food, energy and medicine.
Television and radio
Campbell has appeared on Fox News Channel and the Blaze Network. In January 2013 he was an invited guest at Glenn Beck's Black Sheep Inauguration Ball, to fete people who Beck believed had debunked Obama administration policies during the president's first term. He is a frequent guest on the Agri-Talk program hosted by radio host Mike Adams.
Books
Campbell has reached #1 in the Amazon Environmental Policy category as of 2012: Hardcover Non-Fiction. The Blaze Network staff named
Early years
Campbell was born in Pennsylvania and resided in Florida and Pennsylvania. He attended Liberty Junior-Senior High School in Liberty, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1983.
Adulthood
Campbell began attending Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1983 and graduated in 1987 with a double major in psychology and journalism. He was on a full scholarship and was a Senior Award recipient. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves.
In 1988, after completing Signal Corps Officer Basic Course in Augusta, Georgia, Campbell returned to Pittsburgh where he became a stockbroker. In 1992, he went to work for Algor, Inc., a developer of mechanical engineering software, as their sales manager. In 1995, Campbell became a sales engineer at Ansoft Corporation, a developer of electrical engineering software, as a pre-IPO employee. In 2004 he left Ansoft to become Vice-President of Sales at Optimal Corporation, a developer of electrical engineering software. In 2006, Campbell left Optimal and founded Science 2.0.
Personal life
Campbell is married with children and lives in Sacramento, Calif.