This ex­trav­a­gant par­ty dur­ing #BIO18 fea­tured top­less dancers, and in­dus­try lead­ers are not pleased

An in­fa­mous in­dus­try par­ty held dur­ing the BIO In­ter­na­tion­al Con­ven­tion in Boston last week has come un­der fire for fea­tur­ing scant­i­ly clad fe­male dancers with spon­sor lo­gos paint­ed on their bod­ies.

Af­ter an at­tendee, Kate Stray­er-Ben­ton, pro­vid­ed pho­tos of the Par­ty at Bio Not As­so­ci­at­ed with Bio (bet­ter known as PAB­NAB) to the me­dia and open­ly spoke against it, some spon­sors as well as of­fi­cials of the trade group re­act­ed with a mix of con­dem­na­tion and dis­ap­point­ment.

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