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This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

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Diana, NYC

@disvi.bsky.social

Umpteen years ago I had open heart surgery at the NIH. What an incredible organization!

P. Orin Zack "the POZ that refreshes"

@gznork26.bsky.social

Imagine a GLOBAL Institute of Health. These are issues that transcend national boundaries.

techn0mad.bsky.social

@techn0mad.bsky.social

It has been said numerous times, and the empirical data certainly seems to bear this out: Trump deliberately appointed heads of various federal departments (including the NIH) chosen specifically to diminish or destroy those departments.

Jenna Norton

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

Adding my name to this, too. I am another NIH scientist stating with my name that RFK Jr. is corrupt and destroying NIH. He is overseeing discriminatory censorship at NIH. He allowed unethical study terminations that put research participants at risk. He has installed political actors.

kgay2.bsky.social

@kgay2.bsky.social

Thank you all for your courage, your voice, and your science. Whether NIH or extramural, we will rebuild. Solidarity.

meahekehi.bsky.social

@meahekehi.bsky.social

My name is Paul Grothaus. I’m a retired NIH scientist and I’m not anonymous. RFK Jr. and Jayanta Bhattacharya are destroying NIH and the US scientific infrastructure with devastating impacts on public health and Science.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

I'm a broken record reposting this, but it continues to be true! bsky.app/profile/josh...

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

On NIH's key institute director positions: Aug: "The pick is stoking worries that Jay Bhattacharya is choosing—or being forced to choose by his boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. —leaders with fringe scientific views and no experience with NIH research funding."

science.orgNeurologist with MAHA ties to lead NIH’s child health instituteAppointment of John Gaitanis increases concern that scientific qualifications are no longer driving leadership picks

Rosanna Landis Weaver

@landisweaver.bsky.social

My husband was at NIH until last year and what he hears from former colleagues and what we hear from friends absolutely echoes this. Science is being destroyed

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

Thank you for saying this. bsky.app/profile/land...

Rosanna Landis Weaver@landisweaver.bsky.social

My husband was at NIH until last year and what he hears from former colleagues and what we hear from friends absolutely echoes this. Science is being destroyed

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

What's the point of keeping your powder dry if you never take the opportunity to say what is happening?

democracy4u.bsky.social

@democracy4u.bsky.social

DIRECT ATTACK ON HEALTH OF A NATION