“Every single NIH employee had to write… a loyalty oath to DEI principles.” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reveals that the woke ideology infected science over the past 20 years. “None of it actually translated over to better health for anybody.” It’s worse than we think. “Over the last 15-20 years,... the NIH incorporated into its agenda things I can only characterize as political agendas rather than scientific agendas.” “Probably the most prominent example of this is DEI.” “If you’re a researcher outside the NIH, the ticket to getting extra, relatively easy funds was to promise to do DEI research.” “Much of that research had no real scientific basis at all” and did not translate into better health outcomes for minorities or anyone else. And here’s what worse: “At the end of the year, the NIH would often have some money left over.” “The NIH program officers would go to the people who were doing these projects… and say, ‘look, we have some money left over, if you propose a diversity supplement,’—meaning essentially some DEI add-on that wasn’t actually good science—‘then you can get access to extra money for your research.’” “It was basically wasting taxpayer money that had no chance of improving the health of anybody.” “We’ve gotten rid of all that.” Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD Jay Bhattacharyashow more

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