December 12, 2003

At the Intersection of Research and Business

To the Editor:

"The Price of Research" (October 31) asserts that a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, Tyrone B. Hayes, says that a corporate sponsor tried to bury his unwelcome research findings and then buy his silence. Based on our knowledge, that is a total misrepresentation of the facts, and we wish to set the record straight.

Briefly, a team of multidisciplinary scientists from several universities was assembled to address the response of fish,