Dr. Bhattacharya pledged “five concrete goals” for NIH in his opening statement.

Dr. Bhattacharya pledged “five concrete goals” for NIH in his opening statement.

“Dissent is the very essence of science.”

1. “NIH research should focus on research that solves the American chronic disease crisis. American health is going backwards.”

“Life expectancy flatlined between 2012 and 2019, plummeted during the pandemic, and still has not bounced back.”

“The chronic disease crisis is severe, with hundreds of millions of Americans, children and adults, suffering from obesity, heart disease, cancer and more.”

2. “NIH-supported science should be replicable, reproducible, and generalizable. Unfortunately, much bought modern biomedical science fails this basic test.”

“The NIH itself just last year faced a research integrity scandal involving research on Alzheimer's disease that throws into question hundreds of research papers.”

“It is no stretch to think that the slow progress on Alzheimer's disease is linked to this problem. The NIH can and must solve the crisis of scientific data reliability.”

3. “If confirmed, I will establish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the NIH.”

“Over the last few years, top NIH officials oversaw a culture of cover up, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differ from theirs.”

4. “The NIH must recommit to its mission to fund the most innovative biomedical research agenda possible to improve American health.”

5. “The NIH must embrace, and vigorously regulate, risky research that has the possibility of causing a pandemic.”

“We must regulate risky research that has the possibility of causing a pandemic. It should embrace transparency in all its operations.”

“If confirmed, I'll carry out President Trump's agenda of making the public science institutions of this country worthy of trust and serve to Make America Healthy Again.”
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