THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH:
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Funded gain-of-function research by at the communist Wuhan Institute of Virology
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Failed to take any responsibility for the deadly pandemic caused by the Wuhan lab leak
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Supported policies that banned church gatherings and forced children wear masks in school while permitting “Black Lives Matter” race riots targeted against peaceful Americans
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Now can’t figure out why President Trump wants to shut them down while they complain that “global collaboration is being interrupted”.
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ABC NEWS – More than 300 scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed an open letter on Monday morning to director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, criticizing the Trump administration over recent moves.
The letter, including 92 signed names and 250 anonymous but verified signatories, shares concerns that research is being politicized, global collaboration is being interrupted and that budget and staff cuts have hindered the ability of NIH to do important research.
“[W]e dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,” the letter reads.
“We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”
[How many of these same scientists penned an open letter dissenting from Administration policies when Anthony Fauci was funding the Wuhan lab? – HH]
Some of the NIH scientists who signed the letter, speaking in their personal capacity and not on behalf of the agency, told ABC News they and their colleagues have tried to raise concerns internally — and repeatedly — but to no avail.
They said there is now an urgency to speak up, especially as Bhattacharya is set to testify on Tuesday at a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the proposed NIH budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
“There is a lot of risk to speaking up, and I am very scared still, even after it’s already done, even after it’s already said,” Jenna Norton, a program officer at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and one of the lead organizers of the letter, told ABC News.
“I think a lot of people are focused on the risk of speaking up, but we also need to think about the risk of not speaking up.”
The letter, called the Bethesda Declaration — NIH is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland — is modeled after the Great Barrington Declaration, of which Bhattacharya was a co-author.
Published in October 2020 and named after the Massachusetts town in which it was drafted, the Great Barrington Declaration called for COVID-19 lockdowns to be avoided and a new plan for handling the pandemic by protecting the most vulnerable individuals but allowing most to resume normal activities, achieving herd immunity naturally …
