Dozens of scientists stormed from a full auditorium yesterday after a doctor appointed by Trump had proposed that the US helped when starting the COVID pandemic.
The researchers, some upholstery in face masks, jumped out of their seats in the first town hall for Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new head of the top research institution of America, the NIH.
Just earlier he said: “It is possible that the pandemic was caused by research carried out by people, and it is also possible that the NIH has partially sponsored that research.”
He then broke off at least 30 scientists before he called them: ‘It’s nice to have freedom of expression. You’re welcome, guys. ‘
In the years prior to the Pandemie, the US financed dangerous experiments with function function at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the CIA and FBI believe that the COVID virus was leaked.
After the scientists had left, Dr. Bhattacharya: ‘If it is true that we have sponsored research that caused the pandemic – and if you look at polls from the American people, that is what most people believe, and I have looked at scientific evidence and I believe it.
‘[Then] What we have to do is ensure that we do not do research that is a risk … for human populations. ‘
Dr. Bhattacharya has activated the strike after he suggested that NIH may have unintentionally led to the COVID pandemic
Dr. Bhattacharya spoke yesterday around 1 p.m. in the Masur Auditorium in the Nih Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland when the strike took place.
The area was already tense, since up to $ 2.7 billion in financing was reduced by the new Trump administration – according to the latest estimate.
It is also thought that more than 1200 employees were fired.
Dr. Bhattacharya started the Nervous Town Hall, employees who were present, told the Federal News website Director.
He also ran to a stony silence at the start of the town hall, instead of the usual applause offered to directors.
During the town hall, Dr. Bhattacharya also denounces about spending cuts on the budget of the NIH, but argued that they were needed – some work as a ‘ideological’ in nature.
“There is a line of research that is supported by the NIH that I do not believe is not fundamentally scientific,” he said, “and that is ideological in nature.”
“That does not promote the health and well -being of someone, but it does reduce the trust of the public.”
He clarified that this investigation into ‘structural racism’ included, which led to that recoil from a member of the public.
The newly appointed NIH head faced a tense town hall with scientists, who at some point also denounces him about cuts on the desk
Dr. Bhattacharya also praised the new executive Order of Trump during the town hall that put an end to the financing for research into function in countries of concern.
In the town hall he had hoped to iron his five -point plan for the agency that chronic diseases, academic freedom, reproducibility of research, innovative science and transparency would emphasize.
Senator Bernie Sanders published a report last week that suggests that no less than $ 2.7 billion from the agency had been demolished and said that the Trump government had declared ‘war against science’.
This was far above the previous estimate, which brought the count to $ 1.8 billion reduction in subsidies of the $ 36.94 billion by the Bureau in Subsidies every year.
Dr. Bhattacharya became known during the COVID Pandemie for supporting the Great Barrington statement, which to put an end to Lockdowns for everyone except the most vulnerable.
The then director Dr. Francis Collins called him a ‘fringe epidemiologist’ in e-mails published in 2021.
Recently a group of scientists suggested that the precursors of Covid may have originated for the first time in South China and the neighbor Laos. They suggest that it was subsequently moved to Wuhan by animal traders, but are unable to exclude that it could have been moved by scientists
Dr. Bhattacharya has previously shunned from supporting the Lableket theory and said on X in May 2022: ‘Who says I believe it was a Lablak? Not me. ‘
But in the midst of an ever -increasing study to support the theory, he has now begun to indicate that it should not be excluded as a possibility.
His office did not respond to a DailyMail.com request for comments.
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