Maryn McKenna is a blogger for Wired, a columnist for Scientific American and a journalist for national magazines. She is the author of SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA and Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. She is a board member and the freelance chair of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
<p>Let me tell you a little story about my first husband.</p><p>We met when I was in graduate school. He was a foreign journalist working in America and I interned where he worked. I left town, finished my degree, moved back. We reconnected, got married, and were considered enough of a catch -- two sharp young thrusters, an investigative reporter and an editor -- to be head-hunted by a large paper in the Midwest.</p>
<p><em>(Note: <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/palmd">Peter Lipson MD</a> and I are both members of Scienceblogs, which imploded spectacularly during the past 24 hours over the managers' decision to accept a paid blog by PepsiCo. Peter cross-posted his </em><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/rethinking-blog-networks-and-eth… on the controversy</em></a><em> here at RoH, and with the OK of site managers here, I'm doing the same to comment and reply.)</em></p>
