Alicia Gallegos is a staff reporter at Retraction Watch. She is a longtime health and science journalist, previously covering health law and policy for Medscape. She served as Senior Reporter for MDedge where she wrote about the intersection of law and medicine and hosted the Policy & Practice Podcast. Alicia was also a medicolegal and business reporter for the American Medical Association, and is a former fellow of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Reach her at alicia@retractionwatch.com.