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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “NIH scientists collect, and NIH itself collect royalties on…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 43:35

For example, FDA gets 50% of its budget from the pharmaceutical companies and other industries that it regulates. We need to end that. NIH scientists collect, and NIH itself collect royalties on drugs they developed. So they've gone from being a scientific research agency, becoming an incubator for new pharmaceutical products with a partnership with those agencies, usda, as I said, NIH and CDC have created foundations. (43:35–43:47)

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Asserts that the National Institutes of Health and its scientists receive royalties from drug developments.

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