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‘We dissent’: NIH officials issue declaration, say Trump’s agenda puts public at risk
It’s highly unusual for so many agency officials to denounce their own leadership and the White House in such a public way.
Antivaxxer or ‘highly capable’? Ex-Harvard Medical School expert tapped by RFK Jr. for vaccine panel defies easy labels
Some say the rush to categorize Martin Kulldorff underscores the intense polarization of public science that continues ...
NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the ...
An Uproar at the NIH
Jay Bhattacharya, the the agency’s director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test ...
NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump’s deep cuts in public health research
On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, ...
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NIH staff break ranks in open letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya
Sixty-six current and 23 recently-terminated staff at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with 253 anonymous ...
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300-plus NIH staffers demand director reverse funding and workforce cuts
The Great Barrington Declaration was decried by experts and public health organizations as dangerous and unscientific. The new declaration gets its name from Bethesda, Maryland, the home of NIH ...
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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the ...
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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies
They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.