NIH has a tremendous number of amazing scientists, some of whom you see here at the table with me, there's a normal process for deciding which projects get funded. $500 million in contracts were terminated, $100 million redirected to 80 year old technology without competition. And the researcher, one of them is best known for being a COVID vaccine skeptic, had his lab's annual operating Budget increased by more than 50 times. (02:57–03:09)
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