5/ He's Launching a Massive, Unbiased Autism Investigation The NIH is starting a major initiative to investigate ALL potential causes of autism. Environmental factors, nutrition, vaccines, everything is on the table. No predetermined conclusions.

Dr. Jay Battacharya just spent 4.5 hours on Andrew Huberman's podcast discussing health. He revealed mind-blowing facts about autism research, vaccine safety, & how our medical establishment really works... Here are 8 of his most shocking insights: 🧵

1/ His Own University Tried to Silence Him Stanford's dean directly told Bhattacharya to stop speaking to the press during COVID. They even "ordered him to redo" his immunity study when they didn't like the results. "Stanford failed the academic freedom test," he said.

2/ Autism Rates Have Exploded and Nobody Knows Why 1 in 31 kids now has autism according to the CDC. Bhattacharya's shocking admission: "Everyone has their pet theory for why and yet we don't know why. I as a scientist do not know the answer." But here's where it gets crazy...

3/ Most Scientific Studies Can't Be Replicated The replication crisis is so bad that drug companies do their own private studies because "they don't trust the published biomedical literature." Translation: Most medical research is junk.

4/ Americans Are the World's "Piggy Bank" for Drug Research "American taxpayers are the piggy bank for the world," Bhattacharya revealed. Pharmacy benefit managers inflate prices while Europe pays "marginal costs." Time to cut out the middlemen.

6/ American Life Expectancy Was Stagnant Even Before COVID While European nations saw health gains, American life expectancy was "almost entirely flat" from 2012-2019. Despite billions in healthcare spending, we're not actually improving American health outcomes.

7/ They Covered Up COVID's Origins Scientific institutions should "come clean" about federal money potentially funding COVID-19 origin research. The government even banned NIH contractor EcoHealth Alliance for failing to oversee the Wuhan lab.

8/ Young Scientists Drive Innovation, But the System Crushes Them Bhattacharya's research proves young scientists are the most innovative. Yet the system forces them to serve established scientists for decades. His plan: Redirect funding to young investigators.

The transformation is already happening... Bhattacharya froze 80% of NIH's budget and laid off over 1,000 employees. University funding is being slashed from 50-60% down to 15%. He's shifting focus from infectious diseases to chronic diseases affecting every American family.

His reform agenda is radical: → Investigating taboo topics like vaccine injuries and autism causes → Breaking up the scientific "old boys club" → Prioritizing replication over flashy new research → Cutting pharmaceutical middlemen → Restoring transparency to public health

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Age of parents is a huge factors. Especially dads

@DrJBhattacharya @SecKennedy Why don't you have a little chat with Dr. William Thompson on Capitol Hill?

...as long as they don't remove 💉 from the list, fine.