 some people to evade conflict rules on the premise that their expertise is unique and not available from an uncompromised source.</div>
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<div class="articletext">"We are perfectly willing to say the administration should have discretion in creating committees that share its ideology," Sharpe said. "But it does not have discretion to undermine the independence of the scientific advisory process."</div>
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