- Barry Glassner
Barry Glassner is a professor of
sociology and executive vice provost at theUniversity of Southern California , which honored him with its highest research award. [cite web | url = http://www.usc.edu/about/faculty/associates_awards.html | title = The USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research] He has written several books, including "The Culture of Fear", which discussed the similarly named phenomenon,culture of fear .Michael Moore interviewed him in the film "Bowling for Columbine ". Indeed, some of Moore's statistics and a story about PresidentGeorge W. Bush mentioned in the movie can originally be found in Glassner's writing. His latest book, "The Gospel of Food", was released in hardcover in January 2007 and softcover in January 2008. In this book he addresses U.S. food beliefs, his premise being that much of what Americans read and hear about food is inaccurate and unhelpful. He discussed this topic in depth in his interview on the "Skeptics' Guide" podcast. [cite web | url = http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=106 | title = Podcast with Barry Glassner]External links
* [http://www.barryglassner.com Barry Glassner website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1289187/ IMDB page]
* [http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1003289.html USC Faculty page]References
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