Episode 236: Paul Thacker

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD
Podcast. Paul D. Thacker is an investigative journalist with over
15 years uncovering campaigns to distort science. He has written
on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times,
JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic,
BMJ, and Mother Jones. He has been quoted by the Wall Street
Journal, the Associated Press, and Rolling Stone, and has been
profiled by Nature and PBS. While serving as an investigator in
the U.S. Senate, he helped to produce stories that ran in dozens
of outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS
News, Reuters, ABC News, Science, Nature, BMJ, and the Associated
Press. His congressional investigations led to passage of the
landmark Physician Payments Sunshine Act, a bill that has altered
the field of medicine, and is now being copied in several
countries including England, France, the Netherlands, and
Scotland.


In their conversation, Tro, Brian, and Paul talk about the great
‘aWOKEning’ in American journalism, why vaccines are historically
such a touchy subject in medical and science journalism, the
anti-vaccine hysteria so prevalent in our current day,
corruption, suppression, and disinformation in and from the
pharmaceutical industry, financial relationships between doctors
and pharmaceutical companies, the relationship between the FDA
and big Pharma, narrative-based censorship, and lawsuits against
the federal government for colluding with social media companies
to violate free speech.


For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for
listening!


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Paul Thacker:


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Dr. Brian Lenzkes:


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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:


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