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However, when public records responsive to USRTK's request for communications by Folta were released, they revealed more the emails about the kids of his corporate friends. As Kloor noted in a follow-up blog for Nature, the university released more than 4,000 pages of Folta's communications with industry, and "The documents show that Monsanto paid for Folta's travel to speak to US students, farmers, politicians and the media. Other industry contacts occasionally sent him suggested responses to common questions about GM organisms. 'Nobody ever told me what to say,' says Folta."<ref>Keith Kloor, Nature, Aug. 6, 2015, accessed Jan. 2016, http://www.nature.com/news/gm-crop-opponents-expand-probe-into-ties-between-scientists-and-industry-1.18146</ref>
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 magazine 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).
