NIH Scientists Demand Bhattacharya Defend Agency
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Dasgupta, Sunil host. Interview with Mollie Manier, Ian Morgan, and Anna Culbertson. “NIH Scientists Demand Bhattacharya Defend Agency” I Hate Politics. June 13, 2025. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dYx30RMa897O73U7f0bBS.
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After weeks of protests over firings, grant freezes, and budget cuts, more than 300 scientists and staff from Maryland-based National Institutes of Health issue a public letter of protest called the Bethesda Declaration fashioned after the Great Barrington Declaration, which was co-authored in 2020 as an act of dissent from the scientific orthodoxy on Covid by their current Trump-appointed director Jay Bhattacharya. Sunil Dasgupta talks with three signatories to the letter, NIH staffers Mollie Manier and Ian Morgan, and former staffer Anna Culbertson about the public statement and the relationship between science and politics. Bethesda Declaration: The Great Barrington Declaration: Music by Silver Spring power pop band, The Airport77s.