He is the founder and executive director of the science advocacy group the Genetic Literacy Project, and a former visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

[2][3] Entine was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania into an Ashkenazi Jewish family from eastern Europe[4] and was raised in Reform Judaism.

[citation needed] In high school, Entine worked as a weekend copyboy for the CBS owned-and-operated TV station then known as WCAU.

In 1989, Entine and Brokaw collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, which was named Best International Sports Film of 1989.

[citation needed] In September 1994, Entine wrote an investigative article titled "Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?"

[14][15] The GLP is a non-profit organization that promotes public awareness and discussion of genetics, biotechnology, evolution and science literacy.

[20][21] In a Financial Times article, the Genetic Literacy Project site was described as a provider of information on genomics that is not readily accessible to the general public.

[27][28][29] Physical anthropologist Jonathan Marks characterized the book as "make-believe genetics applied to naively conceptualized groups of people.

In a review of this book, geneticist Harry Ostrer wrote that Entine's "understanding of the genetics is limited and uncritical, but his broad, well-documented sweep of Jewish history will inform even the most knowledgeable of readers.

"[30] He was previously senior research fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University where he began in 2011[31] and at GMU's STATS (Statistical Assessment Service).

AEI Press has published three books written and edited by Entine: Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?, which analyzes the impact of chemicals in agriculture; Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing, which focuses on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds; and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture, which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming.