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Update: As I was putting up this post, Adam Bly, CEO of ScienceBlogs, announced that he was removing Food Frontiers from the site. The corporate blogs by ...

Update: As I was putting up this post, Adam Bly, CEO of ScienceBlogs, announced that he was removing Food Frontiers from the site. The corporate blogs by Invitrogen, Shell Oil, and General Electric are still there, although only General Electric's appears to be active.

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Responding to...

Outrage over the decision by ScienceBlogs to run a blog produced by Pepsi--see...

Outrage over the decision by ScienceBlogs to run a blog produced by Pepsi--see my post earlier today--continues to grow. Best-selling author Rebecca Skloot has now announced her resignation from the site; her Culture Dish will reappear elsewhere. And the Guardian has published a confidential letter from Adam Bly, Seed's founder and CEO, in which he attempts to justify the decision to give Pepsi a blog.

Excerpts from Bly's letter to his bloggers...

Update: A confidential response from Seed CEO...

Update: A confidential response from Seed CEO Adam Bly was leaked and published by the Guardian. Check my update above.

If you cover such things as heart disease, obesity, food, and nutrition, you'd probably be interested in a blog called Food Frontiers that promises this, in its first post:

The focus will be on innovations in science, nutrition and health policy...We have some exciting things planned for this project, including a...