Marty Makary
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 May
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And that means that people who are above the FDA in authority, that is the secretary, people in the White House, or members of Congress, when they have ideas, we will engage with them, and we will have a scientific conversation.
And that's all they ask for is scientific dialogue.
We have no plans to make changes to the drugs that you mentioned.
Well, first of all, the media has been very dishonest in reporting government spending on health programs.
For example, it's been reported that Medicaid has been cut when, in fact, the Medicaid program budget has increased by $200 million.
Right.
Now, they did announce they're going to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, but net-net, it will be an increase for next year.
With the NIH, they also will have an increased budget next year.
So the idea that the NIH budget has been cut is false, and it's part of a very partisan media landscape that we have right now.
We live in a very partisan culture.
And so when media outlets repeat something enough, not only do they convince the public, but they themselves believe it.
The NIH budget this year is higher than last year.
And next year, it'll be higher than this year.
So the NIH did propose, of the money spent on grants, there's two portions.
One that goes to the university's dean and their slush fund.
and another that goes directly to the researchers.
And they did propose cutting the amount that goes directly to the Dean's slush fund so that they could increase the amount that goes directly to the researchers and fund more research grants.
That was misconstrued in the media as cuts to science and cancer research and all kinds of nonsense.
The other thing the NIH did, which some people didn't like,
is they looked at all their grants and identified grants that were going to descriptive studies on DEI.
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