She has also challenged questionable claims emanating from the scientific community – from “arsenic bacteria” to “fine tuning as evidence for God”. She has a degree in geophysics from Caltech and has written for The Economist, Science, New Scientist and the Washington Post. She is currently a journalism critic for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, a writer-in-residence at Ursinus College, and the voice of Higgs the Science Cat for Parade.com.