NIH in limbo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

I love this. Francis Collins called Dr. Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for daring to voice a different view on covid restrictions, and it would be poetic justice for him to replace Collins.

I don’t love that Bhagtacharya is political but the attacks against him are just nutso. Some people really truly believed there was only one single appropriate approach to COVID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

I love this. Francis Collins called Dr. Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for daring to voice a different view on covid restrictions, and it would be poetic justice for him to replace Collins.

I don’t love that Bhagtacharya is political but the attacks against him are just nutso. Some people really truly believed there was only one single appropriate approach to COVID.

+1

Collins’ hubris during COVID made things much more difficult for many people, which he still can’t acknowledge. We could do way worse than Bhattacharya.

[Anonymous]

He would be one of the least-bad Trump picks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why get rid of some many people? The current staff can just act on the new policies and initiative implemented by the new administration. That has always been done in the past, but it's a new era now I guess.

I’m not at NIH but this is what drives me crazy about all the anti-bureaucrat “deep state” talk. My perspective after being in govt for several decades is that the GS staff are very aware of our role to implement the policies of whatever administration is in office. If anything, I feel like people fall all over themselves trying to ingratiate themselves with the politicals of the moment. There isn’t some kind of sabotage effort occurring. I’m a lawyer in an OGC so, yes, if they want to do something and there is no legal authority for it, it’s our obligation to tell them but then it’s their call to as to whether to ignore that legal opinion. It can create tension if an administration wants us to say there’s legal authority for something when there’s not (and there are moments of such tension with politicals of both parties) but responsible people of both parties have long understood these roles and responsibilities.

There are no two parties
Dictatorship

We live under an oligarchy of billionaires and wannabes.

Also, WTF is up with RFK's skin? Do you either have to be a rapist or some bizarro makeup face like Trump to be in his cabinet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

I love this. Francis Collins called Dr. Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for daring to voice a different view on covid restrictions, and it would be poetic justice for him to replace Collins.

Well said. NIH has become the exact opposite of science. Fauci had a horrific reputation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, grant PIs are mostly older white guys and system is rigged so as no DEI can change this, right?

No, the quality goes so down when you start doing this DEI crap. Race can't make you do research or high tech work. Stop dumbing down the country.

I graduated with a 4.0 GPA in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and had all kind of awards and successful internships. Guess what? When I first started working people still doubted me because I am black. Yet everytime they needed to solve some tough problems they turned to me. Not every minority is a DEI hire. Some of us had perfect sat scores, perfect gpa, and had patents to our names.

Good for you. There are a lot of people who are as good as you but don't get the position because they are either white or minority that doesn't have any influence in the selection process. Imagine them losing a spot because they have to hire an unfit person due to DEI? Hiring should always be on credentials otherwise we will dumb down the performance and productivity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, 600 employees is nothing. Any agency could easily reduce 20-30% staff and would not miss them and NIH is very bloated.

How is NIH very bloated? Specific examples please.

Did you see how many PMs they have to run a few funding projects? Get rid of 1/2 of them and others can still handle the workload. It's different if you are expecting all of them to do 20 hrs week and get paid for 40 hrs and that's why deadweights should go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, 600 employees is nothing. Any agency could easily reduce 20-30% staff and would not miss them and NIH is very bloated.

How is NIH very bloated? Specific examples please.

Did you see how many PMs they have to run a few funding projects? Get rid of 1/2 of them and others can still handle the workload. It's different if you are expecting all of them to do 20 hrs week and get paid for 40 hrs and that's why deadweights should go.

DP - Lol, tell me you know nothing about NIH without telling me you know nothing about NIH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess eating McDonalds and drinking a Diet Coke won’t be abolished.

Trump will say it's healthy, look at him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

I love this. Francis Collins called Dr. Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for daring to voice a different view on covid restrictions, and it would be poetic justice for him to replace Collins.

Well said. NIH has become the exact opposite of science. Fauci had a horrific reputation.

What was Fauci’s horrific reputation?

I’m at NIH and have never heard anything bad about him.

[Anonymous]

He’s an awful control freak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, grant PIs are mostly older white guys and system is rigged so as no DEI can change this, right?

No, the quality goes so down when you start doing this DEI crap. Race can't make you do research or high tech work. Stop dumbing down the country.

I graduated with a 4.0 GPA in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and had all kind of awards and successful internships. Guess what? When I first started working people still doubted me because I am black. Yet everytime they needed to solve some tough problems they turned to me. Not every minority is a DEI hire. Some of us had perfect sat scores, perfect gpa, and had patents to our names.

Good for you. There are a lot of people who are as good as you but don't get the position because they are either white or minority that doesn't have any influence in the selection process. Imagine them losing a spot because they have to hire an unfit person due to DEI? Hiring should always be on credentials otherwise we will dumb down the performance and productivity.

Your response is very racist. You’re implying that PP is a DEI hire. Why should they have to imagine? Per their admission they are qualified and were hired based on credentials. Please crawl back under the rock from where you came from.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/16/nih-director-jay-bhattacharya-covid-great-barrington-declaration/

I love this. Francis Collins called Dr. Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for daring to voice a different view on covid restrictions, and it would be poetic justice for him to replace Collins.

Well said. NIH has become the exact opposite of science. Fauci had a horrific reputation.

What was Fauci’s horrific reputation?

I’m at NIH and have never heard anything bad about him.

+1. Interviewed him many times in 90s. Helped out a friend who came back with vicious Flu of unknown origin from Honeymoon in Asia. A gem of a person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, grant PIs are mostly older white guys and system is rigged so as no DEI can change this, right?

No, the quality goes so down when you start doing this DEI crap. Race can't make you do research or high tech work. Stop dumbing down the country.

I graduated with a 4.0 GPA in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and had all kind of awards and successful internships. Guess what? When I first started working people still doubted me because I am black. Yet everytime they needed to solve some tough problems they turned to me. Not every minority is a DEI hire. Some of us had perfect sat scores, perfect gpa, and had patents to our names.

Good for you. There are a lot of people who are as good as you but don't get the position because they are either white or minority that doesn't have any influence in the selection process. Imagine them losing a spot because they have to hire an unfit person due to DEI? Hiring should always be on credentials otherwise we will dumb down the performance and productivity.

Your response is very racist. You’re implying that PP is a DEI hire. Why should they have to imagine? Per their admission they are qualified and were hired based on credentials. Please crawl back under the rock from where you came from.

In my experience people very quickly figure out who the DEI hires are, and minorities that are qualified do very, very well. I just want to work with the most qualified people; I really don’t care about much else.

[Anonymous]

more than 90% of the DEI hires I have seen are worthless and sometimes management just have to fill the positions due to the requirements and it is horrible. You hire one bad person and then hire two more contractors to do his/her job.