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In his letter to the editor of the online magazines, Murphy pointed out the Kloor gave a speech in 2015 at an Alliance for Science (AFS) meeting at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Murphy asked both magazines to inquire whether Kloor had received any honorarium or travel expenses for the speech titled "How Cultural Brokers Shape the GMO Debate."<ref>Cornell Alliance for Science website, Apr. 8, 2015, accessed Jan. 2016, http://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/keith-kloor-how-cultural-brokers-shape-gmo-debate </ref> AFS is funded almost entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has worked closely with the [[Monsanto]] Corporation to push GMO crops and oppose restrictions on GMOs, including most recently working together to urge Kenya to overturn its ban on GMO cotton.<ref>GMWatch website, Jan. 6, 2016, accessed Jan. 2016, http://www.gmwatch.eu/2016-articles/16631-monsanto-us-and-gates-foundation-pressure-kenya-to-reverse-gmo-ban</ref>
Murphy noted that AFS was petitioning against USRTK's requests to professors at public universities. Murphy's letters are uploaded and available here: [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/File:Keith_Kloor_and_2015_FDN_Letter_to_Science_Mag.pdf] (Science pdf) and [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/File:Keith_Kloor_and_2015_FDN_Letter_to_Nature_Mag.pdf] (Nature pdf). There appear to be no public responses to those questionsletters.
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