Sheril Kirshenbaum (born May 24, 1980) is an American science writer and scientist. She co-authored Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney, and wrote The Science of Kissing. She also co-founded and led Science Debate, a nonprofit organization with a stated goal of restoring science to its rightful place in politics.
Sheril has served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow with Senator Gary Peters. She has also been a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a Marshall Memorial Fellow, a Next Generation Fellow through the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and a John A. Knauss Fellow in the U.S. Senate with Senator Bill Nelsonhttps://sherilkirshenbaum.com/.
Kirshenbaum currently works at Michigan State University and hosts Serving Up Science on PBS. Her research focuses on scientific decision-making in Congress. She is Jewish.
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