Dr. Joseph Fraiman
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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And at times I would be working with different agencies.
And what I'd say I found is that you have
It's very difficult within government because the way these systems have been designed, I don't know if I have a fix.
But because, for example, like the NIH, the way it's been built is over 80 years, Congress decides that we're going to have a new institute.
There's 27 institutes, 29, I believe, offices, each one with its own director.
And
This is just piled on, and it's done by Congress who aren't, they are our representatives, but I don't see how they would really know how our scientific funding system should be working.
And so, and then to fix it, you need actually an act of Congress
which I learned when I was in Washington, D.C., is just the term they use there when you say we need a change.
They say, that's an act of Congress.
And I was like, wait, that sounds impossible then.
And they're like, no, no, no, I know the guy who we're going to talk to to try to start this.
But it's quite difficult to make any sort of changes because of the system.
And that has its pluses and minuses.
But it's led to a very difficult system to change.
Everyone who wants to who's tried to change things in the past, what they do is they essentially just add on something new.
And it's very difficult to remove something or change it.
And, you know, it's how their response was for COVID is a different story.
I believe that what happened there was really not not acceptable.
And I don't think I would blame anyone.
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