From project SHAME: “Later that same year, Gladwell published a New Yorker piece that blamed skyrocketing prescription drug prices on users of prescription drugs, not on pharmaceutical companies. New Yorker readers responded angrily, tipping off http://Slate.com  columnist https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1199672546947264513

Jack Schafer that Gladwell took "speaking fees from corporations and trade associations" that he covered in print, forcing Gladwell to publicly admit that he had had indeed taken money from the pharmaceutical industry: “Have I given paid speeches to companies or industries

mentioned or affected by that article? Yes I have.” https://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/