Paul D. Thacker is a journalist based in Madrid, and a former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. For several years, he led a series of high-profile investigations in the United States Senate that created reforms in medicine, including passage of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act and revising the conflict of interest policies at the National Institutes of Health. He has written on scientific ethics for numerous outlets including The BMJ, The Progressive, JAMA, The New York Times, HuffPost Investigations, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He was awarded the British Journalism Award last year for a series on COVID19 government policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[24],"yoast_head":"\n