{"id":29302,"date":"2025-06-09T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29302"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:29:54","slug":"n-i-h-workers-denounce-trumps-harmful-health-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29302","title":{"rendered":"N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump\u2019s \u2018Harmful\u2019 Health Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency\u2019s work and endangering people\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

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More than 60 employees of the National Institutes of Health signed their names to a scathing letter sent on Monday to denounce what they described as the degradation of the country\u2019s medical research apparatus under President Trump, accusing the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering participants in studies and censoring critical research.<\/p>\n

The letter, sent to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, and then posted online<\/a>, was a remarkable rebuke of the agency\u2019s leadership. In interviews, signatories to the letter said that they were concerned they could be fired for speaking out, but that the risks of acquiescing to orders they saw as unethical \u2014 and in some cases illegal \u2014 were too great.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe dissent to administration policies that undermine the N.I.H. mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,\u201d they wrote in the four-page letter. \u201cMany have raised these concerns to N.I.H. leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter included signatories from across the agency\u2019s 27 institutes and centers. Its organizers called it \u201cThe Bethesda Declaration,\u201d a reference both to the home of the agency\u2019s headquarters and to a 2020 missive by Dr. Bhattacharya, the Great Barrington Declaration, opposing Covid lockdowns in 2020. In that letter, he and his co-authors argued for dispensing with the lockdowns in the interest of letting the virus spread among younger, healthier people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Bhattacharya, who was then an economist and professor of medicine at Stanford University, has described feeling bruised by heavy criticism of the idea, including from N.I.H officials. After he was nominated to lead the agency, he promised to \u201cestablish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the N.I.H.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the letter, some of his employees are putting that promise to the test. \u201cWe hope you will welcome this dissent,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

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In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency\u2019s work and endangering people\u2019s health.More than 60 employees of the National Institutes of Health signed their names to a scathing letter sent on Monday to denounce what they described as the degradation of the country\u2019s medical research apparatus under President Trump, accusing the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering participants in studies and censoring critical research.The letter, sent to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, and then posted online, was a remarkable rebuke of the agency\u2019s leadership. In interviews, signatories to the letter said that they were concerned they could be fired for speaking out, but that the risks of acquiescing to orders they saw as unethical \u2014 and in some cases illegal \u2014 were too great.\u201cWe dissent to administration policies that undermine the N.I.H. mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,\u201d they wrote in the four-page letter. \u201cMany have raised these concerns to N.I.H. leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures.\u201dThe letter included signatories from across the agency\u2019s 27 institutes and centers. Its organizers called it \u201cThe Bethesda Declaration,\u201d a reference both to the home of the agency\u2019s headquarters and to a 2020 missive by Dr. Bhattacharya, the Great Barrington Declaration, opposing Covid lockdowns in 2020. In that letter, he and his co-authors argued for dispensing with the lockdowns in the interest of letting the virus spread among younger, healthier people.Dr. Bhattacharya, who was then an economist and professor of medicine at Stanford University, has described feeling bruised by heavy criticism of the idea, including from N.I.H officials. After he was nominated to lead the agency, he promised to \u201cestablish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the N.I.H.\u201dWith the letter, some of his employees are putting that promise to the test. \u201cWe hope you will welcome this dissent,\u201d they wrote.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29304,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29305,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302\/revisions\/29305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}