Senate Commerce advances Biden's top science nominee
During his nomination hearing last month, Lander apologized in response to a question from Lummis about downplaying the work of two female scientists, Nobel Prize winners Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, in a 2016 paper. “I made a mistake, and when I make a mistake I own it and try to do better,” Lander said at the hearing. In response to his meetings with Epstein, Lander said the “sum total” of his interaction was that he met him briefly at two events within the span of three weeks in the spring of 2012. “I did not know about his sordid history before that point. A...
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