Krešimir Mišak


Krešimir Mišak is a Croatian journalist, rock musician, and science fiction author.
Mišak is a noted proponent of alternative history and conspiracy theories in Croatia.

Education

He has graduated journalism at Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb in 1996.

Career

Mišak has published journalistic works, music and fiction.

Journalist

Since 1988 he has been working in educational shows of the Croatian Radio.
He is most famous for his talk show Na rubu znanosti 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 has been published in 2006.

Musician

He 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.

Writer

Since 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

Mišak has been a target of Croatian academia and media for promoting misinformation and pseudoscientific theories regarding global warming denial, New World order, alternative history and ufology. Academia in particular disregard his theories as "dangerous" and "blatant nonsense". He does not have any formal education on those matters.