Scenes from a personalist regime: "Presidential nominees must publicly repudiate reality if they want to ascend in the world." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
It’s the Bethesda Declaration’s birthday — to mark the occasion, 73 NIHers have a report outlining ongoing concerns, which have become “more insidious and systematized, but no less harmful” as @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put it
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In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns
BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?
TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy
B: It's 'political controversy' only because Trump refuses to accept the results
T: It is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that
B: So you're going to use the same script
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9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.
Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
