NIH staffers say leadership ignored their dissent letter one year later
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Anil Oza
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A year after hundreds of NIH staffers published an unprecedented open letter of dissent (the Bethesda Declaration) to agency Director Jay Bhattacharya, a new report from 71 staffers states that NIH leadership has largely ignored their concerns. While Bhattacharya met with many signatories who hoped for a course correction, the staffers feel the agency has not addressed the problematic direction they identified.
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Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health broke rank in an unprecedented move and published an open letter of dissent
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