{"id":24514,"date":"2025-03-24T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24514"},"modified":"2025-03-24T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:29:11","slug":"chaos-and-confusion-at-the-n-i-h-the-crown-jewel-of-american-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24514","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Chaos and Confusion\u2019 at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

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A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health was preparing to give an invited talk at a scientific meeting when an urgent call came in from an administrative assistant.<\/p>\n

There is a total communications ban, the scientist was told, and you cannot give the speech.<\/p>\n

As soon as the scientist got back to the office, another ban went into effect \u2014 one that prohibited researchers from submitting papers to journals for publication.<\/p>\n

Seven senior investigators working in different parts of the National Institutes of Health described rules put in place on orders from the Department of Government Efficiency that risk hampering and undermining American medical science. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared for their jobs for speaking publicly.<\/p>\n

One said that DOGE had begun a reign of \u201cchaos and confusion.\u201d The scientists warned that it had the potential to seriously weaken the N.I.H. \u2014 the crown jewel of American science, with a vast network of thousands of researchers in 27 centers dedicated to treating disease, improving health and funding medical research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rules change seemingly from day to day.<\/p>\n

Can scientists order necessary supplies to do their research? Yes. No. Maybe.<\/p>\n

Can they travel? A 30-day ban was put in place on Feb. 26. What happens next? No one knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is quite chilling,\u201d one of the scientists said. \u201cThey are controlling information, causing chaos, disrupting everyone, keeping us off-balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump\u2019s policies.A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health was preparing to give an invited talk at a scientific meeting when an urgent call came in from an administrative assistant.There is a total communications ban, the scientist was told, and you cannot give the speech.As soon as the scientist got back to the office, another ban went into effect \u2014 one that prohibited researchers from submitting papers to journals for publication.Seven senior investigators working in different parts of the National Institutes of Health described rules put in place on orders from the Department of Government Efficiency that risk hampering and undermining American medical science. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared for their jobs for speaking publicly.One said that DOGE had begun a reign of \u201cchaos and confusion.\u201d The scientists warned that it had the potential to seriously weaken the N.I.H. \u2014 the crown jewel of American science, with a vast network of thousands of researchers in 27 centers dedicated to treating disease, improving health and funding medical research.Rules change seemingly from day to day.Can scientists order necessary supplies to do their research? Yes. No. Maybe.Can they travel? A 30-day ban was put in place on Feb. 26. What happens next? No one knows.\u201cIt really is quite chilling,\u201d one of the scientists said. \u201cThey are controlling information, causing chaos, disrupting everyone, keeping us off-balance.\u201dWe 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":24516,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24517,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions\/24517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}