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CONFIDENTIAL October 20, 1992 IIaMORxMDUx TO: Susan Stuntz FROM: Kay Packett ~c~ When our academic scientist recruitment effort was first completed in 1989, 20 scientists had agreed to participate in the program. We now have approximately 12 active members. There are two reasons for the attrition: 1) several scientists have proved to be too difficult to work with (including Dr. Jarnail Singh, Dr. Joseph Wu and Dr. Lawrence Wexler) and 2) others decided at various stages that they were no longer interested in taking the ETS issue on (including Dr. Joseph Fleiss and Dr. Irving Kessler). Several other scientists (Kilpatrick, Ecobichon and Schwartz) contribute little to the program for other reasons. We af^e now in at least some danger of losing three of the most productive members of the remaining group: Dr. Gary Flamm, one of our best toxicologists, Dr. Maurice LeVois, our only U.S. epidemiologist, and Dr. Max Layard, a good statistician and one of the best all-around consultants. Only LeVois has approached me directly to express his reservations about continuing to work on the ETS issue. Over the past couple of years, he has begun working on a number of other issues with a group headed by Renata Kimbrough, former science advisor to EPA Administrator William Reilly. My opinion is that Maurice is still involved only because of his sense of loyalty, and that he is likely to become less and less available to us over the next year, eventually declining to work on the ETS issue at all. Gary Flamm has indicated to Clausen Ely on a number of occasions that he is uncomfortable with the visibility of his work on ETS and has had some negative reaction from other of his clients. I think there is a strong possibility that Gary will decline active participation as early as next year. , Max Layard probably is less likely to leave the program in the near term"than either LeVois or Flamm, but began expressing some concern following the SAB hearing earlier this year. His participation in the California hearing, where he was treated rather worse than other participants, probably did not help. My opinion is that Max is likely to continue working for publication for some time, but may eventually decline public activity. T13104-9034