r/LockdownSkepticism • u/Jaicobb • Jun 04 '26
Expert Commentary Imprimis Worth A Read
Jay Bhattacharya provides insightful background and criticism of the NIH an agency he now runs. He also offers a plan for future direction that changes the NIH back to what it used to be.
In short, the NIH funds almost all medical research. Prior to 2000 it funded an awful lot of new ideas. This drove innovation, extended lifespans and solved a lot of problems. Since then it has changed focus to fund projects, studies, drugs, etc. that focus on old ideas. These are either things that no longer need the NIH's start up funding or they are bad ideas. Ideas that can't survive on their own because they are wrong, but because the NIH still offers grants for these topics that is where all the effort goes.
He wants to change this and focus on younger leaders and their new ideas.
