Fifty-Four Scientist Have Lost Their Jobs As a Result of NIH Probe Into Foreign Ties

June 19, 2020

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties

The National Institutes of Health has been investigating grantees suspected of not disclosing their links to foreign institutions, notably in China.

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties

By Jeffrey Mervis

Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments.

In 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution.

The new numbers come from Michael Lauer, NIH’s head of extramural research. Lauer had previously provided some information on the scope of NIH’s investigation, which had targeted 189 scientists at 87 institutions. But his presentation today to a senior advisory panel offered by far the most detailed breakout of an effort NIH launched in August 2018that has roiled the U.S. biomedical community, and resulted in criminal charges against some prominent researchers, including Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s department of chemistry and chemical biology.

“It’s not what we had hoped, and it’s not a fun task,” NIH Director Francis Collins said in characterizing the ongoing investigation. He called the data “sobering.”

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**Comment**

  • There are 399 scientists “of possible concern” to NIH
  • The FBI has fingered 30% of them
  • An additional 44 have been flagged by their own institutions and of these, 63% came out “positive”, 19% negative, and 18% pending
  • 70% (133) of the researchers had failed to disclose to NIH the receipt of a foreign grant
  • 54% had failed to disclose participation in a foreign talent program
  • 9% hid ties to a foreign company
  • 5% of cases involved a violation of NIH’s peer-review system
  • 4% had an undisclosed foreign patent

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/28/espionage-trade-theft-3-charged-in-china-related-cases-21-vials-stolen-nearly-smuggled-out-of-the-u-s-to-china/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/sars-cov2-biological-weapon-update-with-professor-boyle-another-must-see-video-showing-fauci-behind-funding-china-to-do-covid-19-research/  This article also discusses Charles Liebner and his expertise in nanotechnology and the possible connection to COVID-19.

Excerpt:

So, it’s SARS, which is genetically engineered biowarfare agentto begin with. Second, it has gain-of-function properties, which makes it more lethal, more infectious. It has HIV in there. That was confirmed by an Indian scientist … and it looks like nanotechnology [has been used] … An MIT scientist who did a study found that it traveled 27 feet through the air. And that, I guess, was in lab conditions.

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