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HCRA’s Director of Risk Communications David Ropeik said that previous criticism of HCRA’s objectivity led to an intensive self-examination, but that in the end SPH determined that the center was acting properly...
...this examination by us and the school lead to a very comfortable recognition that we’ve done nothing wrong,” Ropeik said. “We found out that we had tighter conflict of interest rules and more oversight than most other centers at Harvard,” he said...
...Ropeik said that the center was being careful not to lobby for Graham. The webpage on Graham, Ropeik noted, became available only a few days before the confirmation debate and was intended only to respond to press inquiries...
According to Ropeik, the CSPI's questioning of the HCRA's funding and the furor over Graham's nomination relate back to the politics of a new administration getting acquainted in Washington...
...When David Brown quoted the HCRA, he got a letter from the CSPI, which is a great organization but is an avowedly liberal organization," Ropeik says...