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{{short description|American journalist}}

{{Infobox person
| name          = Judith Hooper
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1949|4|15|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[San Francisco]], [[California]]
| occupation    = Journalist
| known_for     = ''[[Of Moths and Men]]''
| spouse        = [[Dick Teresi]]
}}
'''Judith Hooper''' (born April 15, 1949, in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]<ref name=Gale>"Judith Hooper". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Gale. October 19, 2005. Retrieved August 12, 2008.</ref>) is an American journalist.

Hooper has worked as an editor and writer for the magazine ''[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]''. With her husband, [[Dick Teresi]], she co-wrote the books ''The Three-Pound Universe'' (1986) and ''Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman? A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness'' (1990).  She is also the author of the controversial ''[[Of Moths and Men]]'' (2002), 
which argues that the [[Peppered moth evolution|peppered moth experiments]] carried out by [[Bernard Kettlewell]] were flawed.<ref name=Gale/> Hooper writes in the book's prologue, "I am not a [[creationist]], but to be uncritical about science is to make it into a dogma."<ref>Judith Hooper. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7iem4qM9RyQC&dq=hooper+creationist+dogma&pg=PR19 Of Moths and Men]''. W.W. Norton, 2003. xix.</ref>   However, geneticist [[Michael Majerus]] has taken issue with many of Hooper's claims about Kettlewell, concluding that she misunderstood natural selection and the details of peppered moth predation.<ref>Michael E. N. Majerus, Industrial Melanism in the Peppered Moth, [https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12052-008-0107-y "''Biston betularia'': An Excellent Teaching Example of Darwinian Evolution in Action"], ''Evolution: Education and Outreach'', {{doi|10.1007/s12052-008-0107-y}}, 2008.</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* ''Of Moths and Men'', 2002
* ''Alice in bed, a novel'', 2015

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://judithhooperauthor.com/ Official website]
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