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John Marion Tierney (born March 25, 1953) is a journalist who has worked for the New York Times since 1990.

Tierney writes a science column, Findings, and the TierneyLab blog^[1] for the Times. The TierneyLab takes a contrarian view about science and society:

In 2005 and 2006, he was a columnist on the Times Op-Ed page, before which he wrote a column about New York, "The Big City", that ran in the New York Times Magazine and the Metro section from 1994 to 2002.

Tierney identifies himself as a libertarian, and has become increasingly identified with the libertarianism. His columns have been critical of rent stabilization, the war on drugs, Amtrak and compulsory recycling. His article "Recycling Is Garbage" broke the New York Times Magazine's hate mail record.^[2]

Tierney started his journalism career as an undergraduate at Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Daily News. He went on to work for the Bergen Record and the Washington Star, and has written for magazines such as Science 86, Health and Discover.

In collaboration with novelist Christopher Buckley, Tierney co-wrote the comic novel, God Is My Broker, in parody of financial and spiritual self-help books. He also wrote The Best-Case Scenario Handbook, a parody of the popular Worst-Case Scenario Handbook series.

[edit] See also

• The Simmons-Tierney Bet

[edit] References

• Biography from the New York Times
• Sept. 14, 2005 interview with Reason magazine

[edit] External links

• Recent Tierney columns at the New York Times
• "Meet John Tierney", New York Times biographical video interview