Selected interviews and appearances

Climate change could broaden global reach of dengue fever. USAToday. 2024 Nov.

With dengue cases at an extreme high, research points to climate change’s role. NBC News. 2024 Nov.

Jay Bhattacharya, an NIH critic, emerges as a top candidate to lead the agency. The Washington Post. 2024 Nov.

‘A warmer, sicker world’: Mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases are on an unstoppable march across the US. BBC. 2024 Sep.

Dengue fever is surging worldwide. A hotter planet will make it worse. The Washington Post. 2024 Jun.

Yet more evidence that we physicians need to clean up our act. Science-Based Medicine. 2024 Feb.

The power of perceived expertise. Center for Innovation in Global Health. 2024 Feb.

Why is pro-vax Aetna paying firm founded by Covid skeptic? Daily Beast. 2023 Feb.

The Covid Truther Movement has found its True Enemy - the Covid Truther Movement. Vice. 2023 Jan.

A new course examines scientific and cultural representations of disease. Stanford Report. 2023 Jan.

Can ‘dirty money’ pollute climate scholarship? Inside Higher Ed. 2022 Dec.

Report: Trump era Covid strategy “likely resulted in many deaths.” Institute for Public Accuracy. 2022 Jun.

The person who knows. Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (podcast). 2022 May.

Mis/disinformation 101. Hosted by Georgia State Rep. Rebecca Mitchell. Mar 2022.

These doctors’ groups are cheering on the anti-vax truckers. Mother Jones. 2022 February.

What is your COVID-19 risk attending a dinner party, small bar, or even a wedding? Local Memphis. 2021 Aug.

He’s a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was dangerously misleading on Covid. STAT News. 2021 May.

Tool shows Wisconsin gatherings mean high risk of COVID-19 exposure. Wisconsin Public Radio. 2020 Nov.

New map shows risk of COVID-19 encounter during Thanksgiving across the US. WBIR. 2020 Nov.

Study: here are the chances you’ll be exposed to COVID-19 in a group setting. WSOC-TV. 2020 Jul.

The imprecise science of predicting the spread of COVID-19. Civil Beat. 2020 Apr.

Opinions and blog posts

Harris MJ. President Levin’s first order of business: abandoning academic freedom. The Stanford Daily. 2024 Oct.

Harris MJ. “Fauci Files” and Florida’s grand jury investigations fail to deliver. Science-Based Medicine. 2024 June.

Kashtan Y, Harris MJ. Doerr’s fossil fuel ties discourage top scholars from engaging. The Stanford Daily. 2022 Nov.

Harris MJ.My breakthrough about vaccines. Voices for Vaccines. 2022 Jun.

Mordecai EA, Harris MJ. Will we ever reach herd immunity to Covid-19? The Guardian. 2022 Jan.

Harris MJ. Do as we do, not as they say: Stanford affiliates contradict Stanford’s COVID-19 policies. The Stanford Daily. 2021 Sept.

Mordecai EA, Harris MJ, Lipsitch M. The US may never hit the herd immunity threshold. That’s OK. New York Times. 2021 May.

Harris MJ. Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully. The Stanford Daily. 2020 Dec.

Harris MJ and Sherman A. Satire: Campus COVID-19 outbreaks traced to students heeding call from faculty to ‘rise up.’ The Stanford Daily. 2020 Nov.

Song DS, Harris MJ, Ou SX, Schachat S. Stanford University must speak out against xenophobia. The Stanford Daily. 2020 Jun.

Weitz JS, Harris MJ, Chande AT, Gussler JW, Rishishwar L, Jordan IK. Online COVID-19 dashboard calculates how risky reopenings and gatherings Scientific American. 2020 May.

Harris MJ. Setzler contradicts himself in sponsoring abortion ban, vaccine bills. Marietta Daily Journal. 2019 Dec.

Harris MJ, Caldwell J. Climate drives Zika transmission in Latin America. The Royal Society Blog. 2019 Aug.

Events

The following is an incomplete list of events that I organized and/or moderated with Scientists Speak Up. Videos are embedded where recordings are available.

Misrepresenting science (organizer and moderator). 2024 Jul.

Science communication in an age of misinformation (organizer). 2023 May.

Scientific publishing reform: Changes at eLife (organizer). 2023 Apr.

Teach-in on climate change disinformation with Professor Naomi Oreskes (organizer). 2022 Nov.

Mitigating medical misinformation (organizer). 2022 May.

Debunking scientific misinformation on social media (organizer and workshop leader). 2022 Jan.

Dismantling disinformation workshop (organizer and workshop leader). 2021 Nov.

Denialism: From COVID-19 to climate change (organizer and moderator). 2021 Nov.

Going viral: How COVID misinformation spreads online(organizer and moderator). 2021 Jul.