NIH wades into foreign affairs

[Anonymous]

NIH, the federal agency responsible for conducting and supporting biomedical and public health research, is now threatening to prohibit (or claw back, post-award) any funding requests from universities that can’t or won’t decertify DEI programs, or that fail to silence criticisms of Israel via the BDS movement.

If you’re an American and you are not yet outraged at this blatant corruption and dismantling of the Constitution, maybe you’re not really an American where it counts anyway?

[Anonymous]

It’s not NIH. It’s the administration. I work there and it sucks for us too. If I could leave I think I would. We’ve been taken over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not NIH. It’s the administration. I work there and it sucks for us too. If I could leave I think I would. We’ve been taken over.

Yes! I with the media would stop framing this as NIH. It is the Trump administration forcing this.

[Anonymous]

If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

Not true at all. We do not want all the career people to leave. That would be worse for the American people than what we have now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

Stop it. NIH is the world's premier biomedical research institute. My husband worked there for many years. He has a PhD and an MD and worked on cancer, Alzheimer's, ADHD, and heart disease. It would be extremely hard to leave one's research to work elsewhere. The grants are tied to the lab, you can't just up and leave and take all your stuff with you. Research projects last for decades, especially if you first have to create a new line of model organism to study your hypothesis. You benefit from very expensive scientific equipment that is housed in one of the campus buildings, that you share with other labs. Your genetically engineered mice are housed onsite and fed and kept healthy by the animal services department. Or if you're working in clinical research with human patients in building 10, well, you can't go elsewhere either, right? The patients are here. The samples are here. The lab is here.

Scientific research in biology and medicine isn't an office job where you take your laptop and go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

Not true at all. We do not want all the career people to leave. That would be worse for the American people than what we have now.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

Stop it. NIH is the world's premier biomedical research institute. My husband worked there for many years. He has a PhD and an MD and worked on cancer, Alzheimer's, ADHD, and heart disease. It would be extremely hard to leave one's research to work elsewhere. The grants are tied to the lab, you can't just up and leave and take all your stuff with you. Research projects last for decades, especially if you first have to create a new line of model organism to study your hypothesis. You benefit from very expensive scientific equipment that is housed in one of the campus buildings, that you share with other labs. Your genetically engineered mice are housed onsite and fed and kept healthy by the animal services department. Or if you're working in clinical research with human patients in building 10, well, you can't go elsewhere either, right? The patients are here. The samples are here. The lab is here.

Scientific research in biology and medicine isn't an office job where you take your laptop and go.

To add - NONE of the researchers (who are the backbone of NIH) are political. It's the political appointees of this administration that have been sent to all agencies, including NIH, who have issued these pronouncements. You'd think after what's happened at other agencies, you understand that the actual long-term federal employees don't make these decisions. It's the new people brought in by the White House who do. You never want to get rid of the ones with the actual expertise, doing the actual work!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

Not true at all. We do not want all the career people to leave. That would be worse for the American people than what we have now.

But you can all strike. Apparently 3% of the population needs to do this to make the regime fall. There’s info on IG, but can’t remember what it’s called.

[Anonymous]

And yet many of the top leadership in the Fed left because they didn’t want to do what the president is directing them to do. How can you do unbiased research when the president dictates the rules?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit.

Not true at all. We do not want all the career people to leave. That would be worse for the American people than what we have now.

But you can all strike. Apparently 3% of the population needs to do this to make the regime fall. There’s info on IG, but can’t remember what it’s called.

If we strike, our patients suffer, and our decades-long investments in biomedical research are destroyed. Again, the work done at NIH can’t just be shut down on a whim or picked up by some random replacement - it doesn’t work like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet many of the top leadership in the Fed left because they didn’t want to do what the president is directing them to do. How can you do unbiased research when the president dictates the rules?

Yes, how indeed can scientists with much less ability to switch labs work like this. You see our problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not NIH. It’s the administration. I work there and it sucks for us too. If I could leave I think I would. We’ve been taken over.

OP here - yes, I understand that these disgraceful attacks on the fabric of our constitution are being done at the direction of the administration, and that the bozo lackeys appointed to “lead” these agencies are complicit. No intent to besmirch the scientists and NIH staff.

[Anonymous]

But definite intent to condemn anyone who isn’t aghast and everyone who supports this madness. Sheer madness.

[Anonymous]

For those who have been indifferent to the BDS movement, or who have been uncertain about what to believe in the matter - I guess you can consider these past few months your courtesy call to wake TF up.

Critical research intended to save lives and improve the quality of life for patients, caregivers, and really for every person on this planet - jeopardized by this administration that has gladly succumbed to foreign state corruption.