NIH slashes overheads, fires directors and staff, freezes funds, halts trials, interrupts research, stalls grant review, and terminates 100s of grants on infectious disease, vaccines, mRNA, DEI, LGBTQ health.
NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
NIH director, to Bari Weiss: Scientists are just upset because they didn't vote for Trump.
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he's lazy, dishonest, and incompetent.
"the left" has nothing to do with it.
but go ahead and blow up their research if it makes you feel tough!
the reckoning for all this will be epic.
The interview itself, for those of you who get off on that sort of thing.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sHlKdoOPzv22Q4apj7ifj?si=SdkoizZDTYqxBIvlNvhqQw&nd=1&dlsi=3f5e09ccabc14fa8
But of course, it's bari, so expecting coherence or honesty or anything is a bit much.
https://tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/04#nih-director-dr-jay-bhattacharya-in-email-to-institute-staff
This administration is destroying people's lives and work in the most dehumanizing and chaotic way possible. It's an awful way to treat people.
Battacharya's Spread-Covid-Fast-Get-It-Over-With gang didn't even know if surviving Covid gave you immunity at all,
was it lifetime (nope!), or how long it lasted, or if it'd last long enough to stop the epidemic (also nope.)
And they DID know that a vaccine would be out soon,
and doctors were only starting to find what medicines actually helped.
For example, my colleagues seemed resigned or indifferent during the sequestration crisis
I have had some tell me
Well, every President make changes
Yes, but not like this
This all-sweeping destruction of everything that benefits the average American
The years this is setting back research
We will not get that back
…i am just so angry all the time now