Talk:Maryn McKenna

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Contested deletion[edit]

This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because I changed the wording and took out the image. --BookPortal (talk) 16:55, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed[edit]

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I am directly DMing Maryn McKenna for permission to use a BioPic for the article. How do I proove her permission? Will a screenshot or what do I do so I can use a BioPic? Book Portal & Talk 16:52, 17 March 2016 (UTC) 05:06, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Credentials? Basic skills?[edit]

My experience is that an individual can graduate with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism while having attended very few lectures and while maintaining a continuous blood-alcohol content hovering around 0.08%.

How does the article demonstrate that Ms McKenna isn't merely another food or agricultural polemicist? Is there any information available concerning Ms McKenna's actual facility with scientific inquiry or with the basic mathematical tools of science? What evidence is there that Ms McKenna is able to calculate the stoichiometry of the combustion of octane in oxygen or explain the meaning of a standard deviation or show how the energy of a round of ammunition is distributed between the gun that fires it and the bullet exiting its muzzle? Or that she possesses any other similar, straightforward skill of analysis available to attentive American public high school graduates? None of the references remaining that are unbroken speak to her pre-graduate school education. In particular, the Poynter reference and the CUGSoJ reference are dead links. Is she representative of the vast ocean of individuals who've served to make blurry the distinction between scientist and science journalist? Or, has she real education? Shouldn't this be clear? If this info is available it would be welcome here. Rt3368 (talk) 21:17, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 11:15, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]