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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya CONFIRMED as the NIH Director
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya CONFIRMED as the NIH Director
Dr. Bhattacharya pledged “five concrete goals” for NIH in his Senate confirmation hearing. What do you think about his goals and what do you think he needs to focus on first.
1. “Dissent is the very essence of science.”
“NIH research should focus on research that solves the American chronic disease crisis. American health is going backwards.”
“Life expectancy flatlined between 2012 and 2019, plummeted during the pandemic, and still has not bounced back.”
“The chronic disease crisis is severe, with hundreds of millions of Americans, children and adults, suffering from obesity, heart disease, cancer and more.”
2. “NIH-supported science should be replicable, reproducible, and generalizable. Unfortunately, much bought modern biomedical science fails this basic test.”
“The NIH itself just last year faced a research integrity scandal involving research on Alzheimer’s disease that throws into question hundreds of research papers.”
“It is no stretch to think that the slow progress on Alzheimer’s disease is linked to this problem. The NIH can and must solve the crisis of scientific data reliability.”
3. “If confirmed, I will establish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the NIH.”
“Over the last few years, top NIH officials oversaw a culture of cover up, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differ from theirs.”
4. “The NIH must recommit to its mission to fund the most innovative biomedical research agenda possible to improve American health.”
5. “The NIH must embrace, and vigorously regulate, risky research that has the possibility of causing a pandemic.”
“We must regulate risky research that has the possibility of causing a pandemic. It should embrace transparency in all its operations.”
“If confirmed, I’ll carry out President Trump’s agenda of making the public science institutions of this country worthy of trust and serve to Make America Healthy Again.”
Thanks to American Values for a great post on X.
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Good. He appears to have significant integrity and a true desire for better health for all.
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👍 A breath of fresh air
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Excellent objectives, all 5. I am especially happy to hear you plan to reign in research that has the risk of causing more harm than good, i.e. a pandemic. I have been desperately hoping that someone in the new administration would address the issue of virus and germ research. There have been so many instances already of “accidents” that caused epidemics and pandemics. Absolutely inexcusable in my opinion. Thank you.
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👍 Great point, thank you.
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I am hopeful that the new IMA Journal will become a respected vehicle for honest medical research and will eventually be seen as a comparable vessel of scientific research on a par with the current major publications. Perhaps a guest article in the next issue from the esteemed Dr Bhattacharya when help lend some legitimacy to the IMA Journal.
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👍 Now you’re talking. Wouldn’t that be just brilliant!
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I am very encouraged that a person of this scientific integrity and clinical excellence is in this position. I have been distressed for decades over the easily discernible bias in primary literature. This promises to correct this great defect and I am eager to see what issues in the coming months and years.
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👍 We are all so eager to see. We needed this light at the end of what’s been a pretty dark tunnel.
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https://youtu.be/BqmG2y4IeY8?si=uyeThPRvFaSRDGfE&t=6962
I found this enlightening. This conversation illuminates issues Don Laymen had with the NIH, starting at the 1:56:00 mark. He wanted to study the health issue of protein deficiency and was turned down by the NIH for funding.
“… so we sent that proposal to NIH, National Institute of Health for 10 years and basically it was continuously turned down and they said, well, we only study disease and we don’t know of any deficiencies of protein so it’s not a priority to us and so basically I was left with what turned out to be a revolutionary idea of reinventing protein that NIH wouldn’t fund and basically I finally went to Kraft Foods, the National Cattleman’s beef Association, the National Dairy Association, the American Egg Board, and some of the other groups who were inherently interested in protein and they funded…”
This is a major problem with our health system when scientists wanting to do honest health science need to ally with interested parties. How can we ever know the unbiased truth?
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👍 Your last line/observation is spot on. Much more required.
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