Evidently HHS provided comment after this went to press. Here’s that comment in case you read the article earlier.
Bhattacharya believes “the most productive path forward is through direct dialogue”
Yet he avoids that dialogue at every turn. 🧵
Jenna Norton
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
www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/n...
In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns
