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54 Scientists Lose Jobs Amid NIH Probe Into Foreign Ties
Epoch Times ^
| 06/14/2020
| BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV
Posted on 06/14/2020 2:32:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An ongoing inquiry by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) into grantees failures to disclose foreign ties has resulted in the firings and resignations of 54 scientists.
The NIH investigation has probed 189 scientists for undisclosed foreign ties, with 93 percent of the hidden funding coming from China. Some 77 grantees have been removed from the NIH system as a result of the probe.
The numbers were revealed on June 12 in a presentation by Michael Lauer, the NIH deputy director for extramural research. The NIHs effort dates back to August 2018, when the organization warned universities across the nation that some foreign entities are systematically targeting NIH researchers to divert intellectual property and obtain confidential information.
The NIH effort is part of a larger U.S. government campaign to counter the Chinese Communist Partys infiltration of American academia. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI have made arrests and reached settlements in several cases involving researchers as part of its broader China Initiative launched in November 2018.
At the time of the investigation, some 143 scientists in 27 states held active grants worth $164 million. More than 80 percent were Asian, reflecting the CCPs targeting of Chinese researchers.
The CCP aggressively recruits foreign researchers as part of its Thousand Talents program, which is seen by the U.S. government as a cover for obtaining American intellectual property.
The NIH inquiry has directly resulted in prosecutions by the DOJ. After the NIH flagged an Emory University professors failure to disclose foreign work on grant applications, the DOJ indicted Xiao-Jiang Li, 63, of Atlanta, Georgia. Li was sentenced in May to one year probation and ordered to pay $35,000 to the IRS for the income from China he concealed on his tax returns.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; corruption; foreignties; nih; scientists; scientistsfired
One third of the 189 scientists probed by the NIH were already on the radar of the FBI, according to Lauers presentation. Seven in 10 failed to report foreign grants and more than half have an undisclosed talents award.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/14/2020 2:33:35 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: SeekAndFind
A long overdue but significant step toward cleaning up NIH and sending a related message to other agencies.
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posted on
06/14/2020 2:35:03 PM PDT
by
Starboard
To: SeekAndFind
Why hasnt the fraud Fauci been fired or investigated?
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posted on
06/14/2020 2:35:45 PM PDT
by
tennmountainman
(The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
To: SeekAndFind
Probably the low hanging fruit in my suspicious mind.
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posted on
06/14/2020 2:37:09 PM PDT
by
Bayard
To: SeekAndFind
All the past 3 years screaming “Russia, Russia, Russia” by the MSM was just to provide cover for their buddies in the CCP. And why not, as the CCP funds the MSM.
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posted on
06/14/2020 2:37:27 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
To: SeekAndFind
Kaiser Sose FauXi, like Clinton, are protected
from on high, and can murder or falsely imprison
anyone they want, including witnesses who
dare speak of THEIR Uranium-1 or retrovirus transfers.
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posted on
06/14/2020 2:45:50 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
( WWG1WGA)
To: SeekAndFind
The CDC needs to be investigated.
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posted on
06/14/2020 3:08:03 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: SeekAndFind
How much strategic damage did these 54 scientists cause and how many were H-1B workers? America stop importing them!
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posted on
06/14/2020 3:10:11 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Oceans and oceans of snakeoil and not a paddle.)
To: bgill
DARPA needs to go thru this process!!!
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posted on
06/14/2020 3:19:17 PM PDT
by
datura
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/14/2020 3:20:24 PM PDT
by
keving
(We the government)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/14/2020 3:27:32 PM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/14/2020 3:54:22 PM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: SeekAndFind
I hope NASA and NOAA are next
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posted on
06/14/2020 4:16:36 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: tennmountainman
Maybe this is the reason Fauci has been laying low the past few weeks.
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...
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posted on
06/14/2020 6:50:48 PM PDT
by
bitt
(I shall not kneel for any person. Nor do I expect anybody to kneel for me.)
To: bitt
To: SeekAndFind
These are American scientists and academics who are working at labs that develop new technology and new medical discoveries. As employees, they are duty-bound to keep information in house, the discoveries belong to the employer.
Foreign students here on an educational visa who get access to US government and university labs because they are grad students are also under the obligation to not disclose the work and discoveries they have access to.
Papers and reports are released on new discoveries but not all the details on the process and details that would allow others to steal intellectual property.
The Americans and foreign grad students who sell secrets to Red China should go to jail. Students from mainland China should be kept away from research that has military or important industrial/technical value. They can be coopted by pressure from the CCP. Let them study liberal arts, humanities and business/accounting.
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posted on
06/14/2020 9:53:42 PM PDT
by
RicocheT
(Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
To: SeekAndFind
Why does the FBI always "have someone on the RADAR" but never take preemptive action?
Seems like their motto is "We knew it!" instead of "We stopped it."
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posted on
06/15/2020 3:43:21 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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