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May 16 2024
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Former NIH Head: COVID Lab Leak Not Conspiracy Theory
Francis Collins, the top public health official during the COVID-19 pandemic, earlier this year said the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory, according to a transcript of his testimony released Thursday by House Republicans, reports the Washington Examiner. Collins in January of this year was called before the House Select Subcommittee to explain his role in the scientific inquiry
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May 28 2024
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At the NIH, a Scandal Grows Around an Official’s Evasion of Public Records Law
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which is conducting an investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2, sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health today in which it suggests that there has been “a conspiracy at the highest levels of NIH and NIAID to avoid public transparency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.” The allegation comes as the agency is engulfed in a
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May 24 2024
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Raw milk contaminated with bird flu poses risk to humans: NIH study
Raw milk infected with the highly pathogenic bird flu may pose a risk of infecting humans, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings come as 52 cattle herds across nine states have been infected with the bird flu strain H5N1 and two dairy workers have tested positive for the illness. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Texas A
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Apr 02 2024
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NIH spends $3 million studying microaggressions and HIV
Professor looks at how microaggressions might affect black women with HIV The National Institutes of Health has spent more than $3 million funding a project to study microaggressions against “black women living with HIV.” “Monitoring Microaggressions and Adversities to Generate Interventions for Change (MMAGIC) for Black Women Living with HIV,” aims to “shed light on how microaggressions and
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May 17 2024
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NIH Official Makes Huge Admission About Gain-of-Function Research
In 2021, Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got into a heated exchange over whether the National Institutes of Health funds gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan
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May 16 2024
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NIH quietly altered definition for gain-of-function research on its website
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak confirmed on Thursday that his agency’s communications department altered NIH’s definition for gain-of-function research, with the change being “vetted” by “experts.” The NIH until Oct. 20, 2021 defined this research as “modif[ying] a biological agent so that it confers new or enhanced activity to that agent,” while “
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May 16 2024
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LIVE NOW: NIH Principal Deputy Director Testifies to House Oversight Hearing
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Jun 11 2024
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NIH Scrambled After ZeroHedge Report On Fauci Beagle Experiments, Scrubbed Database, Then Fed WaPo Disinformation
NIH Scrambled After ZeroHedge Report On Fauci Beagle Experiments, Scrubbed Database, Then Fed WaPo Disinformation Last week, Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene took a detour from grilling Anthony Fauci over COVID-19, to confront him with photos of beagles who had been subjected to animal testing experiments widely reported to be funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (
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May 18 2024
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Ex-NIH Director Confirms 'No Science' Behind 6-Foot Distancing Rules
Ex-NIH Director Confirms 'No Science' Behind 6-Foot Distancing Rules Newly released testimony from former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins confirms that Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx did not base the pandemic-era six-foot social distancing rule on science, and instead were making things up as they went along. On Thursday, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the
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Apr 12 2024
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Former NIH director Francis Collins to undergo 'radical prostatectomy' due to cancer
Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, 73, has revealed that he has prostate cancer. In a Washington Post piece, Collins explained that years ago, "My doctor had noted a slow rise in my PSA, the blood test for prostate-specific antigen." "At first, there wasn’t much to worry about — targeted biopsies identified a slow-growing grade of prostate cancer that doesn't
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