Kevin Starr, a historian and State Librarian of California who served on one of the show's advisory panels, was an early opponent of focusing the show on Southern California.
"With the two shows happening at the same time, there's great synergy," said Barbara Gladstone, the Chelsea dealer, who is a participant and one of the dealers on the show's advisory committee.
But prior to inquiries from HuffPost, the museum's website listed no scholarly advisers at all, and a recent check showed its "advisory board" page still says, "Check back soon for an updated list".
This study has shown that advisory committees can add scientific value and maintain research integrity, has developed a preliminary taxonomy for the types of contributions they make, and has identified that there are also costs involved for the research team.
However, less educated households showed no advisory-induced reduction in mercury (Shimshack and Ward 2010).
Figure 2B shows that advisories are based on multiple contaminants that may share associations in common with increased risk of developing the same adverse health effects.
We show how the advisory mechanism alters policy outcomes relative to outcomes that would be realized without the advisory option.
"By the end of the 1990's Comdex had expanded its focus to include consumer electronics stuff and the Internet," said Tim Bajarin, an industry consultant who attended his first Comdex in 1981 and has been a longtime member of the show's industry advisory committee.
Ball remains involved with the show in an advisory capacity.
Mirkin, who had suggested that the two take over, remained on the show in an advisory capacity, helping Oakley and Weinstein with technical aspects of the show such as editing and sound mixing.
After season six, Mirkin suggested Oakley and Weinstein take over as showrunners, but remained on the show in an advisory capacity, helping them with technical aspects of the show such as editing and sound mixing, and attending table readings of the scripts.
