Krešimir Mišak (pronounced [krěʃimir mǐʃak]; born 1972) is a Croatian journalist, rock musician, and science fiction author.
Mišak is a noted proponent of pseudohistory and various global conspiracy theories in Croatia.[1][2][3][4]
Education
editHe has graduated journalism at Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb in 1996.
Career
editMišak has published journalistic works, music and fiction.
Journalist
editSince 1988 he has been working in educational shows of the Croatian Radio. He is most famous for his talk show Na rubu znanosti (On the edge of science) that discusses paranormal and fringe scientific topics, which he hosts on Croatian Television since 2002.
He also occasionally writes for magazines Zabavnik, Drvo znanja, Modra lasta, Svjetlost, Nexus and Vizionar. His popular science book Telepatija i telekineza (Telepathy and Telekinesis) has been published in 2006.
Musician
editHe has held his first concert in KSET in 1988. Since then, he has recorded six albums with four different bands: Fantomi, Fantomi2, Građani and Virusi. He is currently the frontman of the rock band Hakuna Matata.[5][6]
Writer
editSince 1999, he has published a dozen of science fiction short stories, most of them in Futura magazine and Annual collections of Croatian science fiction. He has won SFera Award in the category novelette twice - for Svijet iduće sekunde in 2000, and for Akvarij sa zlatnim ribicama in 2005. Svijet iduće sekunde was republished in Ad Astra - Anthology of Croatian science fiction short stories 1976-2006. Zvjezdani riffovi, collection of his short stories, was published in 2005.
Criticism
editMišak has been a target of Croatian academia and media for promoting misinformation and pseudoscientific theories[1] regarding global warming denial,[2] New World order, alternative history and ufology. Academia in particular disregard his theories as "dangerous"[3] and "blatant nonsense".[4] He does not have any formal education on those matters.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Komunikacije, Neomedia (25 May 2014). "Mišak: Okej, teorija urote, al' daj reci gdje je nestao avion? / Novi list". Vijesti / Novi list (in Croatian). Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ a b R., L. (18 July 2019). "Krešimir Mišak: Priča o globalnom zagrijavanju je laž". Najnovije Vijesti (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Znanstvenici HRT-u: Emisije Krešimira Mišaka su 'opasne'". 24sata (in Croatian). 11 January 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Znanstvenici demantiraju "notorne gluposti" Krešimira Mišaka". Faktograf.hr (in Croatian). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "Koncertna promocija novog albuma Hakuna Matata". status-online.hgu.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Musicians Union. 12 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ "Mišak's current band, Hakuna Matata". Archived from the original on 2010-04-19. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
External links
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- Preko ruba znanosti - Mišak's blog
- Preko ruba znanosti - Mišak's blog (updated link)
- Krešimir Mišak: Vjerujem u sve u što vjeruju i moji gosti[permanent dead link] (in Croatian)
- Dean Sinovčić (22 December 2009). "Gospodar tajni i urota s HRT-a" [Master of secrets and conspiracies of the Croatian Radiotelevision]. Nacional (in Croatian). No. 736. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- Na Rubu Znanosti - Anthony Peake - Ima li života poslije smrti?
- Interview for Podcast Velebit