Mark Fischetti

Mark Fischetti is a veteran science writer and a contributing editor to Scientific American.  He writes for many magazines, has written for The New York Times and Smithsonian, and has been co-editor of the quarterly Scientific American Presents.  He is the co-author of Weaving the Web (HarperCollins, 1999) with Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, and was the ghostwriter for A User's Guide to the Brain (RandomHouse, 2001) by neurologist John Ratey.  Since writing The New Killer Diseases he finds himself washing his hands much more often.