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2008-09-19 |

Obama announces former Monsanto and Amgen directors as science advisors

Obama announced his science platform earlier this month in response to questions posed by ScienceDebate2008, a nonpartisan political education group. [...] Obama’s team is a mix of contrasting approaches: Lamb and Agre are both academics, while Omenn is a director of the biotechnology company Amgen and Long was a director at agricultural giant Monsanto. In other ways, their expertise is narrow: four of the five advisors come from the life sciences.

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2008-09-19 |

Obama announces former Monsanto and Amgen directors as science advisors

Obama announced his science platform earlier this month in response to questions posed by ScienceDebate2008, a nonpartisan political education group. [...] Obama’s team is a mix of contrasting approaches: Lamb and Agre are both academics, while Omenn is a director of the biotechnology company Amgen and Long was a director at agricultural giant Monsanto. In other ways, their expertise is narrow: four of the five advisors come from the life sciences.

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