An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and hundreds of its scientists, including the agency’s recently departed director, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a nonprofit government watchdog.
“We estimate that up to $350 million in royalties from third parties were paid to NIH scientists during the fiscal years between 2010 and 2020,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski told reporters in a telephone news conference on May 9.
“We draw that conclusion because, in the first five years, there has been $134 million that we have been able to quantify of top-line numbers that flowed from third-party payers, meaning pharmaceutical companies or other payers, to NIH scientists.”
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UK Leading the Way Back to Sanity? “UK Supreme Court rules trans women are not real women”
https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1912663931547680785 Watch the electric response in a packed courtroom of women as the UK Supreme Court delivers a landmark ruling, defining “woman” under the law as exclusively those born