Tom Bethell

Tom Bethell ( born July 17, 1940 in London) is an American journalist with a focus on business journalism.

Living in Washington journalist grew up in England. There he attended the Downside boarding school and studied at the University of Oxford. In 1962 he moved to the U.S..

Bethell is managing editor of the magazine The American Spectator and was the editor of Harper 's Magazine and Washington Monthly and correspondent of the conservative National Review. He is also a member of the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.

Bethell is a member of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV / AIDS Hypothesis, which denies that HIV causes AIDS (→ AIDS denial ). Published in 2005 Bethell the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science. It is clear that Bethell is an opponent of the theory of evolution and the idea of "intelligent design " is near. He also denies in the book of human responsibility for climate change and claims that the political left manipulating the science to increase the influence of the state. The book was excoriated in various reviews and Bethells positions characterized as "ultra- conservative."

He also wrote for various magazines such as Fortune, the New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly article and was columnist for Los Angeles Herald Examiner and previously for The Washington Star. 1988, a collection of his articles under the title "The Electric Windmill " was released. In 1998 he published "The noblest triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages (St. Martin's Press ) ." He participated as a journalist at the Shakespeare authorship debate.