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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:

Mark Histed

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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.

21/10/26, 3:43 am38 reposts154 likes

Mark Histed

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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

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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

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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

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

Mark Histed

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... now back to working on that manuscript I should have spent the night on.