Rand Paul

Have you ever or would you ever send another scientist a note saying to take down a fellow scientist you disagreed with?

My goodness, that sounds like the mafia or something.

It doesn't sound like someone who's supposed to be above the fray, objective scientist.

I don't think with the current one, we don't know all of his royalties.

He would say, oh, I got $25 or something.

That's not – it might have been true for a year.

But there are years in the past that he was getting more.

I think Open the Books or the Open Secrets, that group has gone through –

And through freedom of information has gotten information that like 1,500 doctors got $1.5 billion or 1,500 scientists got $1.5 billion in royalty.

So it's not an insignificant amount of money.

It's a lot of scientists.

And once again, I'm not even sure I'm forbidding it.

I just want to know if any of them are on a committee voting for the drug that they got money from that particular drug company.

The woman that was appointed for the NIH under Biden and never got approved, you know, she may well be an ethical person, but I think she...

done research grants of $231 million from Pfizer, and it was listed.

And it doesn't mean she's a dishonest person, but I wonder how she could be objective with Pfizer if through her career.

And all that money didn't go to her.

It was grants that she oversaw, and some of the money went to her.

And that doesn't mean it's illegal or unethical, but I think it's hard for her to judge objectively a company that has been the main financer of her entire career.

Now, Bobby Kennedy has put, you know, and the left wing people hate all the people he's put on there.