Factchecking

I am also a certified fact-checker with over two years of experience in fact-checking popular science books, magazine stories and podcasts. In 2022, I completed two workshops on basic and advanced fact-checking offered by the KSJ-MIT Fact-Checking Project. Below are projects I have fact-checked.

Magazine Features

A Bear's Necessities: A video feature story for Hakai Magazine involving fact-checking the script and interviewing the primary source.

Philadelphia's Diatom Archive is a Way, Way Wayback Machine: A 2500-word feature story for Hakai Magazine on diatoms involving fact-checking with several scientific studies, interviewing primary sources, and museum archives.

Popular Science Books

Sing Like A Fish: A non-fiction book on underwater acoustics. I fact-checked two chapters on fish and cetacean anatomy and how sound is produced and perceived in a few species. I interviewed scientists, peered through several research studies and consulted secondary sources.  

Poisoning the Well: A non-fiction book on how PFAS destroyed Americans' health. I fact-checked the entire book, about 100,000+ words, which involved consulting pre-recorded interviews, book chapters, scientific studies, FOIA requests, archival records and medical records.

 Strength & Power: A non-fiction book on the science of women's bodies. I fact-checked half of the book, including references to numerous studies, previous media reports and other secondary materials.

Audio Podcasts

Girl v. Horse: A 4-part podcast of ESPN's 30 by 30 series chronicling Nicole's quest to race a horse braving her epilepsy. I fact-checked all four episodes, which included peering through numerous studies, reading book excerpts, consulting experts and referencing primary sources.