Fact-checking

I joined ScienceAlert in 2020 as a writer and fact-checker shortly after working with Undark, Nature News and Hakai Magazine to fact-check my own feature stories. Making a piece watertight by checking every fact, source and sliver of detail — including what the piece may have overlooked or left out — is what I do.

2021

• Completed the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fact-Checking Workshop, which included best practices for fact-checking online news and print features.

News Stories I’ve Fact-Checked

• Damaged DNA Could Warn of Parkinson's Long Before Symptoms, Science Alert

• A Rare Event Gave This Algae an Organelle That Traps And Uses Nitrogen, Science Alert

• Surprise Discovery Shows Forbidden Particles Can Attract Each Other, Science Alert

• Misfolded Proteins Could Make Dementia Transmissible, Scientists Suggest, Science Alert

• A Pivotal Human Ancestor Walked With Dinosaurs, Study Finds, Science Alert

• Invasive Bacteria May Trigger Endometriosis, Study Suggests, Science Alert

• Gigantic Tails of Helium Spotted Leaking From Faraway Planet, Science Alert

• This Woman Feels No Pain. Decoding Her DNA Could Bring Relief to Millions, Science Alert

• Lab-Grown Meat Has a Big Problem Very Few People Know About, Science Alert

• Decades-Long Experiment Finds Strange Mix of Antimatter in The Heart of Every Proton, Science Alert

• You're Not Imagining It. Climate Change Is Making Allergy Seasons Start Earlier, Science Alert

• Astronomers Detect First-Ever Mystery Object in The 'Mass Gap' of Cosmic Collisions, Science Alert