In 2005, Dr. John Ioannidis published his review article, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In response, the NIH wrote and distributed a lengthy report suggesting (voluntary) actions that researchers could take to reduce false research findings.
Though never acknowledged to the general public, by 2005, researchers already understood that their own published research was mostly BS. In my own labs, I personally witnessed the publication of false findings probably a dozen times, including projects I was involved in. But we all looked the other way, because that's how the NIH funding and publication game was played, and research was our livelihood.
However, few of us were aware that the FDA, CDC, and NIH were bought and paid for tools of Big Pharma. Nor were we aware of the involvement of the US DOD and Intel agencies in the perversion of the entire drug safety regimen. 2020 changed all that.
I would argue that the NIH has zero benefit to the public. I would argue that the primary role of NIH funded research is the creation of hypothetical biological models that are subsequently used as a fictional rationale for development of new Big Pharma drugs. Drugs that cause harm and have zero benefit. Drugs which can treat nothing and can cure nothing, because the hypothetical models upon which they are based, are themselves false.
This column needed to be written. RFKJr's failure to recognize that ME is an infectious disease is a gross misunderstanding of this extremely common, even rampant, malady. ME is chronic, but only because there is no cure and federal health agencies have supported no efforts to find a cure. Plus, there have been no attempts by the federal health agencies to control the spread of ME or even identify risk factors. Today, forty years after a pandemic surge of ME, 1.3 of every 100 Americans has been disabled by ME. To characterize ME as "chronic" is to miss the critical piece--ME is a communicable disease. PS, I love Neenyah's extensive bibliography for this piece.
In 2005, Dr. John Ioannidis published his review article, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In response, the NIH wrote and distributed a lengthy report suggesting (voluntary) actions that researchers could take to reduce false research findings.
Though never acknowledged to the general public, by 2005, researchers already understood that their own published research was mostly BS. In my own labs, I personally witnessed the publication of false findings probably a dozen times, including projects I was involved in. But we all looked the other way, because that's how the NIH funding and publication game was played, and research was our livelihood.
However, few of us were aware that the FDA, CDC, and NIH were bought and paid for tools of Big Pharma. Nor were we aware of the involvement of the US DOD and Intel agencies in the perversion of the entire drug safety regimen. 2020 changed all that.
I would argue that the NIH has zero benefit to the public. I would argue that the primary role of NIH funded research is the creation of hypothetical biological models that are subsequently used as a fictional rationale for development of new Big Pharma drugs. Drugs that cause harm and have zero benefit. Drugs which can treat nothing and can cure nothing, because the hypothetical models upon which they are based, are themselves false.
This column needed to be written. RFKJr's failure to recognize that ME is an infectious disease is a gross misunderstanding of this extremely common, even rampant, malady. ME is chronic, but only because there is no cure and federal health agencies have supported no efforts to find a cure. Plus, there have been no attempts by the federal health agencies to control the spread of ME or even identify risk factors. Today, forty years after a pandemic surge of ME, 1.3 of every 100 Americans has been disabled by ME. To characterize ME as "chronic" is to miss the critical piece--ME is a communicable disease. PS, I love Neenyah's extensive bibliography for this piece.