Shannon Palus recently became a staff writer for Retraction Watch. Before joining Retraction Watch, Palus was a fact-checker for Retro Report, Quanta, and Popular Science. She also taught Popular Science interns how to fact check. She has written for a number of publications including Discover, Ars Technica, Slate, the Atlantic, Smithsonian, Science, McGill News, The Toast, Eos (the American Geophysical Union’s newspaper), and Popular Science.