President Joe Biden announced on May 15 that he would nominate cancer specialist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to be the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The nominee would be replacing former NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, who held the post for 12 years before stepping down in December 2021, and acting director Dr….
Biden Nominates Cancer Specialist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli for NIH Director
Top Scientists Alarmed and Embarrassed by Agencies’ Failure to Follow Science on COVID
Top doctors and scientists at the leading U.S. public health agencies are “frustrated, exasperated and alarmed” about the direction of the agencies they work for, according to the authors of a Substack post published last week. They’re also embarrassed — about “bad science.” And many are leaving. “It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch…
Probe Reveals Top People With the NIH Getting Big Bucks From Secret Royalty Checks
Recipients of secret royalty payments in key roles at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have been revealed by non-profit government watchdog Open the Books. Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists and researchers by…
Top People at NIH Getting Big Bucks From Secret Royalty Checks, Probe Reveals
Recipients of secret royalty payments who hold key roles at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have been revealed by nonprofit government watchdog Open the Books. Through the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Open the Books has discovered that payments totaling more than $134 million were paid to more than 1,600 NIH executives, scientists, and…
Five GOP Senators Seek Info From NIH Acting Director on Royalty Payments to Feds
Five Republican senators have asked National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting Director Lawrence Tabak for a comprehensive accounting of every royalty payment by an outside source to an employee of the federal agency since 2009. “We believe that the American taxpayer deserves to know 1) the degree to which government doctors and researchers have a…
Following the Money
“At OpenTheBooks.com, we have a simple mission,” Adam Andrzejewski said. “It’s Every Dime, Online, in Real Time. Our vision is to post online every dime taxed and spent at every level of government across the country.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sits down with Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder…
NIH Admits it ‘Suppressed’ Wuhan Lab Genetic Data, but Disputes Watchdog’s ‘Deleted’ Label
A National Institutes for Health (NIH) spokesman is disputing a non-profit watchdog group’s claim that the agency “deleted” genetic sequencing data on the CCP virus from a Chinese lab, but the same official acknowledged the data was “suppressed.” “The headline says the sequences were deleted which is inaccurate. They were not deleted. This is a…
Republican Senator Introduces Legislation to Temporarily Halt Federal Research Grants Going to Viral Gain of Function Research
Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) is leading a group of Republicans in introducing new legislation that will temporarily halt federal research grants from going to universities and other organizations that are conducting “risky research on potential pandemic pathogens.” In a press release announcing the new legislation on Oct. 19, Marshall said the bill, known as the Viral Gain of Function…
NIH’s Experimental Antibody Drug Prevents Malaria in Small Study
An experimental monoclonal antibody developed at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) prevented malaria for up to nine months in volunteers exposed to the disease-causing parasite in a small trial, researchers reported on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Malaria is a preventable disease caused by parasites transmitted to people through bites…
Dr. Fauci Spills Another ‘Verifiable Falsehood’
Commentary “With all due respect, you are entirely, completely incorrect.” The National Institutes of Health, “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” That was Biden adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci in a May 11 hearing, responding to Sen. Rand Paul. The Kentucky Republican wondered if American tax…
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