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Eric Weinstein asserts that universities have created a scientific precariet by forcing professors to conform to dogmatic consensus to receive funding. He cites former NIH director Francis Collins labeling Jay Bhattacharya a fringe epidemiologist for questioning COVID lockdowns.
The National Institutes of Health budget has tripled since 1998 to $47 billion, but outcome efficiency has fallen 80-fold since 1950. Michael Kratsios attributes this stagnation to rigid funding structures that ignore R&D returns.
To foster breakthrough R&D, the Trump administration is establishing meta-science units at the NSF and NIH. These units will pilot golden tickets allowing individual evaluators to unilaterally fund high-risk, high-reward proposals.
The median age of an intramural researcher at the National Institutes of Health is 71 years old. Michael Kratsios flags this aging workforce as a critical issue, planning structural reforms to bring younger scientists back into federal research.
Jeffrey Tucker claims Anthony Fauci urged Donald Trump to request Chinese permission for a joint NIH and WHO delegation to Wuhan. This culminated in a February 25, 2020 report praising China's authoritarian response.
Anthony Fauci's diaries reveal he relied on Our World in Data, an organization that received tens of millions of dollars from Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam Bankman-Fried also offered grants to the NIH before his exchange collapsed.
Jeffrey Tucker points out that an NIH researcher working with Moderna on a vaccine by January 14, 2020, already held a 2017 patent on coronavirus spike protein manipulation. Moderna possessed 3 billion dollars in capital before launching this vaccine.