David Kirby (journalist)

David Kirby was an American journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, who was a regular contributor to The New York Times amongst other publications. He was the author of Evidence of Harm (2005), Animal Factory (2010), Death at Sea World (2012), and When They Come for You (2019). Kirby promoted the false claim that the vaccine preservative thiomersal caused autism, as well as various conspiracy theories related to that claim. He was also a critic of factory farming.