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5 stories tagged "nih"

Investigations

Two Scientists Nominated Fauci for Cash Prizes. Then His Agency Funded Them by the Hundreds of Millions.

The emails Rand Paul released July 24 show Fauci's taxpayer-funded staff drafting his award nominations, and two scientists who submitted them going on to draw large NIAID grants.

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Two Journals That Buried the Lab-Leak Question Now Warn of a 'Gilded Age' in American Science

The Lancet and Science marked America's 250th by casting the administration's research cuts as vandalism. Both journals spent the public trust they now invoke, and the editorials never mention how.

Investigations

The Crisis Was Unexpected. The Org Chart Wasn't.

Internal NIH correspondence and the public record both point to a pandemic-response architecture, and the people to run it, assembled years before Covid arrived.

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Cops shoved a doctor at the ADA meeting. The editorial they tore up has its own credibility problem.

Police escorted ADA members out of New Orleans on Friday for passing out an editorial against Trump's NIH overhaul. The shove was bad. The editorial defending the status quo has a credibility problem the press is mostly missing.

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A Senior NIAID Scientist Got Caught Smuggling 113 Vials Through Detroit. He Says He Does It All the Time.

Two NIAID scientists are charged with bringing 113 undeclared vials into Detroit during an active Congo mpox outbreak. One allegedly told a federal officer he does it all the time.