Ex-NIH Chief Spells Out How Badly Trump Is Screwing The Agency — And U.S. Science As A Whole
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From a devastating "brain drain" to tanking morale, things don't look good, said Dr. Francis Collins.
Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, has sounded the alarm over what he describes as the muzzling of scientists and a troubling decline in morale at the biomedical research agency.
Appearing on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Wednesday, Collins — who led the NIH from 2009 to 2021 — explained exactly why he decided to finally retire from the agency altogether just weeks into Donald Trump’s second term.
He hadn’t planned to, he told host Stephen Colbert.
But after Trump’s inauguration, he recalled receiving “instructions that we are not supposed to go to scientific meetings, not supposed to speak to the public in any sort of way, we are not allowed to order any supplies to do the research and basically we’re told, ‘Don’t start any new projects. Don’t do anything innovative. Just keep doing the kinds of things that you were already doing but nothing new.’”
After several weeks, Collins said it became clear things weren’t going to improve.
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