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A Letter to Trump From Big Pharma That Protests Too Much

By Daily Bell Staff – February 08, 2017

US immigration order strikes against biotech  …  We the undersigned, founders and leaders of biotech companies, write to express our deep concern and opposition to the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 27, 2017, barring the entry of citizens from seven countries into the United States.  The United States is the world’s greatest developer of medicines and new inventions to ameliorate and cure intractable diseases, a status achieved through massive investment in private and public companies, academia and R&D. Most importantly, our success has been founded on the creativity and dedication of our most precious resource—our people. -Nature Biotechnology

The biotech (pharmaceutical) industry has written a letter to Donald Trump objecting to his banning of Muslims from seven countries in