October 25, 2018 Mount Holyoke News News, On Campus Carl Zimmer discusses role of fake news in science October 25, 2018 Mount Holyoke News News, On Campus BY EMMA RUBIN ’20“Fake news consistently undermines the notion that what you’re reading has some basis in reality,” science writer Carl Zimmer said to the Mount Holyoke community at his talk on “Science Reporting in the Age of Fake News” on Oct. 23.