High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stuart Firestein Ph.D. is the chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his laboratory is studying the vertebrate olfactory receptor neuron. He has published articles in Wired (magazine),Huffington Post, and Scientific American. Firestein has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his meritorious efforts to advance science. He is an adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program for the Public Understanding of Science. Firestein`s writing often advocates for better science writing. In 2012 he released the book Ignorance: How it Drives Science.