Marilynn marchione biography

I cover major medical meetings, write national enterprise and spot news stories for the Associated Press.
Biography.
Mary Modestina Sciarra (born Marchione) was born circa 1918, in birth place, Pennsylvania.

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He Jiankui affair

2018 scientific and bioethical controversy

In this Chinese name, the family name is Hè (贺).

The He Jiankui genome editing incident is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018.^[1]^[2] He became widely known on 26 November 2018^[3] after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited babies. He was listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.^[4] The affair led to ethical and legal controversies, resulting in the indictment of He and two of his collaborators, Zhang Renli and Qin Jinzhou. He eventually received widespread international condemnation.

He Jiankui, working at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China, started a project to help people with HIV-related fertility problems, specifically involving HIV-positive fathers and HIV-negative mothers. The subjects were offered standard in vi

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Island of Doubt: What to do when the lie becomes the story

When you are dogged and doubtful about your reporting at the same time, you will turn up half-truths, inconsistencies, and outright lies. Your job as a journalist in these cases is to decide which of these make a material difference to the story.

But when the lie is so central to the basic underpinnings of your piece, you need to adjust your approach entirely.

Begin with owning it. Speaking as a reporter who cringed every time someone contacted me to say that I had screwed up their name or title or place of business in a story, I know how it feels to own up to a mistake. And that’s just a small mistake. When it turns out a source has been lying to you about a central theme of a story you care deeply about, it can be agonizing to have to own that fact. Especially if you have quoted this source before. Especially if you have published the big lie that this source has been pushing before.

This was the case with Marilynn Marchione at the Associated Press when she found out about a pilot, William Hamman, who had claimed t

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Fake doctor duped hospitals, universities, AMA

He seemed like Superman, able to guide jumbo jets through perilous skies and tiny tubes through blocked arteries. As a cardiologist and United Airlines captain, William Hamman taught doctors and pilots ways to keep hearts and planes from crashing.

He shared millions in grants, had university and hospital posts, and bragged of work for prestigious medical groups. An Associated Press story featured him leading a teamwork training session at an American College of Cardiology convention last spring.

But it turns out Hamman isn't a cardiologist or even a doctor. The AP found he had no medical residency, fellowship, doctoral degree or the 15 years of clinical experience he claimed. He attended medical school for a few years but withdrew and didn't graduate.

His pilot qualifications do not appear to be in question — he holds the highest type of license a pilot can have, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said. However, United grounded him in August after his medical and doctoral degrees evaporated like contrails of the jets he