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These correlated improvements in fitness in novel environments suggest that adaptation to the laboratory environment was nonspecific and multifaceted, and seem to downplay the significance of the compromised fundamental niche.
Another question: It's bad enough that the law tends to downplay these cases, but why don't the papers make more of being willing to kill service members to make a profit?
As the investigative medical journalist Jeanne Lenzer reports in her Essay for PLoS Medicine [6], the whistleblowers spoke of public regulatory agencies that are putting the interests of drug companies ahead of the safety of patients, and of pharmaceutical companies that allow their marketing departments to knowingly downplay serious side effects when promoting their drugs.
Schippers' presentation will be countered Monday by Democratic investigator Abbe Lowell, who will downplay the gravity of Clinton's offense.
Other pundits downplay the accusations of treason and malfeasance, noting that Republican presidents were the first to enlist Chinese assistance in launching U.S. satellites (Doyle McManus, PBS's Washington Week in Review ; Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ).