NIH Blocks Two Doctors From Speaking Out to Investigators

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The NIH’s decision to keep two doctors from talking to federal investigators reviewing an ongoing clinical trial has pitted the agency’s scientists against the director’s office

The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government’s premier health research agency, is refusing to allow two of its doctors to respond to government investigators looking into the quality of a continuing clinical trial of new blood-infection treatments on thousands of patients, according to NIH documents and multiple interviews.

The resulting tensions within the NIH have pitted the office of the agency’s director, Francis Collins, against an internal NIH committee of 24 scientists, who are raising questions over the freedom...

 

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What is the motivation to suppress safety concerns?

Yikes. Let's hope NIH doesn't turn into NOAA. 'MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND DEVASTATING. THERE WILL BE NO DISSENT.'

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