Benjamin Ryan is a veteran independent journalist, specializing in science and health care coverage. He contributes to The New York Times, NBC News, the New York Post and The New York Sun and the Washington Post opinion section. He has also written for the The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Nation, New York and many other publications. He publishes the Substack Hazard Ratio, where he focuses on examining the science behind the controversial field of pediatric gender medicine from a circumspect lens. A cum laude graduate of Columbia University and native of Seattle, Benjamin got his start covering the HIV epidemic. More recently, he has reported on Covid-19 treatments and the mpox outbreak. He lives in Manhattan.More: http://www.benryan.net/bio.htmlX: https://x.com/benryanwriter