Margot (Margo) Gray

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461 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

Margot (Margo) Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Once the story broke, Stacey released the full batch of emails to the public.

And that's when Tom Philpott, the journalist we heard from earlier, began combing through them.

Though at first he was hesitant.

Tom went through a mountain of emails, and when he finished, he was floored.

He told me he thought the New York Times might have actually underplayed just how methodical Monsanto was about leveraging academic credibility.

Tell us about the email where the Monsanto executive sent professors kind of detailed proposals for policy briefs.

So if I'm playing devil's advocate here for a second, what is so wrong about that?

If academics believe what they're writing, what is so wrong about taking a prompt suggestion from Eric Sachs and turning it into a policy brief?

The academics didn't just forget to disclose they were working with Monsanto.

The email showed that Monsanto was actually helping them hide the connection.

And Monsanto followed through.

The policy briefs were repackaged into op-eds and blog posts, published under the names of the academics.

Monsanto's name was nowhere on them, just credible sounding experts sharing their views.

And this was just one of many jobs that Eric Sachs had for his academics.

Another big one, responding to critical press coverage.

There was also the time a Monsanto executive asked Kevin Folta to submit a blog post to WebMD on the safety and health of biotechnology.

He wrote to Folta, Over the past six months, we've worked hard through third parties to insert fresh and current material on WebMD's website.

Monsanto also lined up speaking engagements for its academic allies, including overseas.

In one email, Bruce Chassie, the University of Illinois professor, agreed to travel to China without knowing the purpose of the trip.

He wrote to Monsanto, where am I speaking?

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