Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Let me let me make the analogy with something that happened at the USAID, you know, the agency that the Doge sort of looked into first at the USAID. They were doing some really good things like they had a program called PEPFAR, really universally popular because it provided low, cheap HIV drugs to patients in Africa, saving millions of lives. It was a really good program.

I've written about that program in the past. It's a program that was actually rescued and I think brought in by Marco Rubio into the State Department. The same agency had in it a program to add a third gender to the Bangladeshi census. Now, Bangladesh has all kinds of problems.

I've written about that program in the past. It's a program that was actually rescued and I think brought in by Marco Rubio into the State Department. The same agency had in it a program to add a third gender to the Bangladeshi census. Now, Bangladesh has all kinds of problems.

I've written about that program in the past. It's a program that was actually rescued and I think brought in by Marco Rubio into the State Department. The same agency had in it a program to add a third gender to the Bangladeshi census. Now, Bangladesh has all kinds of problems.

There's arsenic in the drinking water, hundreds of thousands of children dying of diarrheal illnesses, I mean, poverty at scale. And what the US government was doing was adding a third gender to its census.

There's arsenic in the drinking water, hundreds of thousands of children dying of diarrheal illnesses, I mean, poverty at scale. And what the US government was doing was adding a third gender to its census.

There's arsenic in the drinking water, hundreds of thousands of children dying of diarrheal illnesses, I mean, poverty at scale. And what the US government was doing was adding a third gender to its census.

If you take something that's good, you know, PEPFAR, and then you surround it and marble it with like absolute politicized nonsense, you leave the good things open to political attacks that should never happen.

If you take something that's good, you know, PEPFAR, and then you surround it and marble it with like absolute politicized nonsense, you leave the good things open to political attacks that should never happen.

If you take something that's good, you know, PEPFAR, and then you surround it and marble it with like absolute politicized nonsense, you leave the good things open to political attacks that should never happen.

um and it was irresponsible for the leaders of of of the usaid to allow the good things to be surrounded and marbled with with with politicized nonsense um and uh i think that in a sense the transition is as to making sure the nih focuses on actual science that actually advances human health um that's that's what we've been doing um i you know i don't want to get too far into the budget because it's a budget fights are always not not fun to talk about but um

um and it was irresponsible for the leaders of of of the usaid to allow the good things to be surrounded and marbled with with with politicized nonsense um and uh i think that in a sense the transition is as to making sure the nih focuses on actual science that actually advances human health um that's that's what we've been doing um i you know i don't want to get too far into the budget because it's a budget fights are always not not fun to talk about but um

um and it was irresponsible for the leaders of of of the usaid to allow the good things to be surrounded and marbled with with with politicized nonsense um and uh i think that in a sense the transition is as to making sure the nih focuses on actual science that actually advances human health um that's that's what we've been doing um i you know i don't want to get too far into the budget because it's a budget fights are always not not fun to talk about but um

I think that there's a lot of support, even from the president himself wrote a letter to his science advisor, Michael Kratios, committing the U.S. to be the premier nation in biomedicine in the 21st century. And the NIH is going to play a key role in that aspiration.

I think that there's a lot of support, even from the president himself wrote a letter to his science advisor, Michael Kratios, committing the U.S. to be the premier nation in biomedicine in the 21st century. And the NIH is going to play a key role in that aspiration.

I think that there's a lot of support, even from the president himself wrote a letter to his science advisor, Michael Kratios, committing the U.S. to be the premier nation in biomedicine in the 21st century. And the NIH is going to play a key role in that aspiration.

You know, one of the things, okay, so this is probably not, shouldn't be, shouldn't have shocked me, but it did. The way that the press reports some things are so distorted, it's almost, I mean, it's mind blowing. Let me give you an example. We found, one of the things I found is that So researchers often work with foreign universities, foreign labs. It's normal.

You know, one of the things, okay, so this is probably not, shouldn't be, shouldn't have shocked me, but it did. The way that the press reports some things are so distorted, it's almost, I mean, it's mind blowing. Let me give you an example. We found, one of the things I found is that So researchers often work with foreign universities, foreign labs. It's normal.

You know, one of the things, okay, so this is probably not, shouldn't be, shouldn't have shocked me, but it did. The way that the press reports some things are so distorted, it's almost, I mean, it's mind blowing. Let me give you an example. We found, one of the things I found is that So researchers often work with foreign universities, foreign labs. It's normal.

I mean, it's not like international collaboration science is normal. The way the NIH paid for these things was by something called sub awards. So an American university, some university in the United States, researcher says, I'm going to work with somebody in France. We give money to the American university. Then the university then gives the money to the lab in France or something like that.