# In Their Own Words: Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who currently serves as director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and publisher of the award-winning Undark magazine. Her most recent book, The Poison Squad, tells the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States in the early 1900s, led by the single-minded crusade of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley who took on powerful corporations in the name of consumer protection. Blum effectively brings this “David vs. Goliath” tale to life, driving home the “moral imperative of confronting corporate g

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