This is the first of an occasional series profiling standout health care journalists. Christie Aschwanden is currently the lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight.com, but her work has appeared in many outlets. In her writing she keeps pursuing important basic questions, such as “How do we know what we know and how certain can we be about it?” This podcast is embedded in a broader blog post, found at: http://www.healthnewsreview.org/?p=44544.