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Scientists are eager to weigh in on potential picks to head the Food and Drug Administration under President Trump.

But it’s not clear if the White House wants to listen.

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“As part of our outreach to the president, we’ve offered to help him vet people if he wants — vetting them on his terms,” Rush Holt, chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said at a STAT lunch on Wednesday. “There’s been no response.”

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