Margot (Margo) Gray

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

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Monsanto also built ties with universities themselves.

In one academic year, Monsanto gave the University of Florida a million dollar grant.

Another year, Monsanto gave the University of Illinois a million dollar pledge to renovate one of its teaching labs.

It is common for companies to donate to universities, but these weren't small checks.

These were major institutional investments.

So I understand how Monsanto benefited from giving money to the individual academics.

They speak at conferences.

They respond to negative media coverage.

They write WebMD posts.

But how does Monsanto benefit from giving that much money to a university?

This is Stacey Malkin, who we heard from earlier.

Stacey says Monsanto didn't just get goodwill from donating to universities.

The company got influence over research, not by changing research results, but by shaping what questions got studied in the first place.

And that matters because the questions scientists choose to ask determine the body of knowledge that follows.

Stacey says you can see that dynamic in the debate over why bees are dying.

There's been strong evidence that certain pesticides can harm bee populations.

But most of the industry-funded research focuses on other culprits.

Donating to universities brought another benefit too.

It gave Monsanto a foothold on campus.

At the University of Florida and at UC Davis, the company helped to organize conferences, though its involvement wasn't publicized anywhere.

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