Not so sure this story is that of the virtuous whistleblower the article portrays. She has a degree in geography and communications. It's unclear where her knowledge of data science comes from, but she clearly wasn't hired for that. She was defying the team of epidemiologists in publishing bad data. The risk of bad data is just as bad as no data. But the term, data science seems to becoming the new catchall phrase that can mean everything and nothing at the same time.