Life and Career
Fumento grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He is the son of Tobey and Rocco Fumento, a professor emeritus in English, film, and creative writing who has worked at the University of Illinois.Michael Fumento at Google Books Fumento's father was Italian American and Catholic and Fumento's mother was Jewish. Fumento himself is Catholic.
His work comprises over 70 subject areas. Google Scholar has almost 1,200 citations of his work. Publisher’s Weekly stated he has “knack for debunking popular beliefs and revealing the true state of things,” while The New York Times Book Review stated, “His arguments, statistics and perceptions appear almost as irrefutable as they are controversial.”
He is best known for science and health issues, especially what he considers faux crises, including the 1987 "heterosexual AIDS explosion", swine flu and the alleged epidemic of runaway Toyotas.
In May 2012, he condemned the "extreme right" for their "lack of civility" and "hysteria" that "would have been rejected by William Buckley and Ronald Reagan".
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