NPR, DNA Files and Venter et al...
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NPR, DNA Files and Venter et al
by: maddna
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Did anyone catch the "DNA Files" piece on NPR Tuesday, March 16 in the am? I only heard the end of it and heard Celera mentioned.
I also saw a few posts about the DNA Files show today on Silicon Investor Board at
Message 8346407.
Although I am an avid NPR fan, I find their reporting often biased. For example, Market Place's emphasis on biotech-phobic Jeremy
Rifkin which is never balanced by biotech friendly (or even knowledgable) people. So I checked out the DNA Files site at
dnafiles.org.
Where, to my amazement (insert ironic look here), who do I find as a "Project Advisor" to the DNA Files on NPR but Venter himself.
Third line from the bottom. No mention of his connection to Celera, just TIGR. Also listed are Elliott Hillback, Jr., Senior V.P., Genzyme
Corp, Desmond Mascarenhas, Ph.D., Celtrix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mark Skolnick, Ph.D., Exec. V.P of Research, Myriad Genetics,
Inc., and Alan Smith, Ph.D.,Senior V.P-Research, Genzyme Corp.
Did anyone hear the DNA Files or NPR mention that Venter has a vested interest in promoting Celera and not mentioning Incyte? I sure
didn't and please let me know if it was stated.
So Venter and Celera get free advertising.
Venter is all about self-promotion. Remember the article about 4 or 5 years ago (of course I can't remember the magazine) that featured
a picture of Venter, his dogs and his yacht! HAHA! He's done fairly well, I guess, having gone from NIH (hey, what happened to those
ESTs he sequenced on public $$?) to Tigger, oops, I mean TIGR, and now to Celera/PKN.
So how about it Roy and Randy? Know anyone at Minnesota Public Radio who can put you on the project advisor list and get INCY
some much needed and free publicity?
Incyte has many great products, great management and a great company. We just need to pay NPR enough $$$ to do *our* PR for a
change.
Good luck.
Posted: Mar 16 1999 9:18PM EST as a reply to: Msg 893 by Trader1001
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Seems like the Celera hype machine is still humming away hard at work and teaming up now with the public effort while at INCY it is the sequencing machines that are humming.......
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