So she labored long and hard to get a PhD in cognitive neuroscience to earn her thesis on Sequence Learning in Patients with Parkinson's Disease which I’m sure was groundbreaking and changed the field and then, rather than continue to find treatments or cures for Parkinson’s - she promptly got a “science writing” certificate and became a “science journalist.“ Winning awards for “great journalism” like “how science helps us live longer” and “vaccines - you can trust the science” (but yknow - non-GMO food is poison) Scientific American stopped being known for it’s science long ago and is to science what readers digest was to literature.