Dan Robitzski is an LA-based science journalist, editor, and producer.
First driven to enter the field by the troubling communication gap among researchers, doctors, policymakers, and the public, Dan hopes to make the fun and important aspects of science more accessible, dispel misconceptions, and hold those in power accountable to the public.
Dan is an editor at The Scientist, where he reports on new developments in the life sciences. Currently, he assigns, writes, and edits stories for the online news desk as well as the print magazine, including managing a monthly column on new lab techniques. For several years, Dan was the senior reporter at Futurism, where he wrote news and reported features about forward-looking technology and science. Aside from his staff job, Dan also writes as a freelancer at other outlets. Though his work at The Scientist is focused on the life sciences such as immunology and genetics, Dan also likes to cover neuroscience, robotics, AI, and the places where they meet in addition to science and tech ethics.
In December 2017, Dan graduated from New York University with his master's degree through the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP).
Dan’s select clips
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Virtual Reality and Journalistic Ethics: Where Are the Lines?
Exploring the complicated link between volcanoes and religion
Tweaking Drug Trial Design in the Hunt for the FDA’s Green Light
"Like Horoscope Readings!": The Scammy World of DNA Test Startups
Artificial Consciousness: How To Give A Robot A Soul
De-extinction debunked: what we didn’t learn from Jurassic Park
Meet the Doctor Who's Livestreaming Human Autopsies
Want to be Taller? Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs
You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does
But that’s not all.
View an extended list of
select work here.
