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Correcting the record

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To the Editor:

As executive director, and on behalf, of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI; Washington, DC), I write to correct certain statements regarding ILSI made by David Schubert in a letter published in the September issue1. In suggesting that University of Georgia Professor Wayne Parrott was incorrectly characterized in a news article as a “public sector” scientist, Schubert accurately noted that Parrott is a scientific advisor to ILSI, but failed to acknowledge he was not speaking in any capacity relating to ILSI. Schubert then proceeded inaccurately to characterize ILSI as a “lobby group” and repeated a claim—made in an anonymous article on a Wikipedia-style website—that ILSI has a “hidden agenda to protect the interests of the food, chemical, and drug industries.” Schubert further claimed that ILSI had been “banned from participating in World Health Organisation [WHO; Geneva] activities.” These statements are both derogatory and untrue.

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Harris, S. Correcting the record. Nat Biotechnol 28, 22–23 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0110-22

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