Biography
Michael Slezak is a journalist and blogger as well as a casual philosophy tutor and lecturer. He is based in Sydney, Australia.
Michael currently works full-time writing medical news at Reed Business Information. He has written news, features, analysis and commentary for publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey, The Guardian Online, ABC Science Online, Australian Doctor, SBS World News Online, CBCNews.ca, Discovery News, New Matilda, and The South Sydney Herald. His journalistic interests include science, health, politics and education. Some of his recent published work is available here.
Michael has a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Sydney. In 2006 Michael was awarded first class honours in philosophy and in 2009 he completed a Master of Philosophy. His honours thesis examined scientific explanation, especially as it applies in thermodynamics and cosmology, and his masters thesis was about the notion of causality in the sciences.
Michael keeps a blog about science and its communication called Good, Bad, and Bogus. It was recently a finalist in several categories of the Research Blogging Awards.
He is not this Michael Slezak, the entertaiment writer, but enjoys accidentally getting the hate mail directed at him and collects it here.
