Michael J. McFadden
Mid-Atlantic Regional Director
Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.
The Smoker's Club
Email Media Interview RequestsMichael J. McFadden grew up in Brooklyn in the 1960s and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Manhattan College with a degree in both Peace Studies and Psychology. He went on to study statistics and propaganda analysis under a doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton program in Peace Research.
He left the University after two years to host a Quaker training center in non-violent social change and has worked at various levels in the areas of peace activism and social change ever since.
He began his Free-Choice activism in the late 1970s when he was presented with some early ASH leaflets. When he looked at them he saw two things that disturbed him: The same sort of emotionalist propaganda techniques that he'd studied in his Peace program, and a clearly horrible misuse of statistics and the scientific method to back up outrageous claims.
On and off over the next 20 years he battled with Antismokers on computer bulletin boards, at public meetings, and in private conversations while building up his knowledge base to be able to combat the Antismokers' ever-slicker claims. Finally, just after the turn of the century (hey, c'mon, I can say that!) he settled down to write "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" and began working with all the Free-Choice groups he could connect with.
He continues his efforts to help people who find themselves a target of a powerful lobby against which they feel they have no defense and he continues in his belief that spreading truthful information and standing up against social injustice will win out in the end.
Mr. McFadden currently lives and bicycles in West Philadelphia where he shares a small row house with a very noisy cat and a very quiet squirrel.
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
web page: http://pasan.thetruthisalie.com/