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Hundreds of Taxpayer-Funded US Scientists Likely Compromised by China: NIH
Epoch Times ^ | 04/24/2021 | Eva Fu

Posted on 04/24/2021 8:32:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

More than 500 U.S. federally funded scientists have been flagged over their financial ties with China and other foreign adversaries, the National Institutes of Health has revealed.

As of April, the federal health agency has reached out to 90 institutions that receive government grants regarding 200 researchers. It has also removed 100 from the “NIH ecosystem” through resignation, termination, premature retirements, or internal departments, according to Michael Lauer, deputy director for extramural research at the NIH.

Lauer said that the biggest challenge is simply “the workload of dealing with a very large number of cases.”

“Each of these requires a tremendous amount of work to figure out what exactly has been happening and to work carefully with the institution to figure out what’s been going on,” he said at an April 22 Senate committee hearing that focused on keeping out Chinese efforts to exploit U.S. biomedical research advances.

One scenario that Lauer highlighted is when scientists have a laboratory set up in China to do the same work for the Chinese government that the U.S. taxpayers are funding.

In others, the researchers may have a business in China leveraging findings from the NIH-sponsored research—which is “a clear conflict of interest.” A third, according to Lauer, is where scientists claim to be dedicating 100 percent of their time “when in fact they are spending 50 to 60 percent of their time in China.”

“So they are lying about how they’re spending their time, and that kind of a blatant lie affects the credibility and the integrity of the entire enterprise,” Lauer said.

The Justice Department has opened cases against dozens of researchers in a bid to cut down the influx of concerted Chinese theft of U.S. intellectual property.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; nih; spying

1 posted on 04/24/2021 8:32:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Outsourcing the research to the USA and then reaping the benefits.

Its a parasitic relationship.


2 posted on 04/24/2021 8:36:53 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

Fauci didn’t make this list?


3 posted on 04/24/2021 8:43:32 PM PDT by orlop9
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To: SeekAndFind

How scientists are compromised by the US government? If you produce a study supporting more government control, such as global warming, you will receive more grant money. If you don’t it dries up.


4 posted on 04/24/2021 8:53:26 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping


5 posted on 04/24/2021 9:23:34 PM PDT by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didn’t think this was 1984…)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Justice Department has opened cases against dozens of researchers in a bid to cut down the influx of concerted Chinese theft of U.S. intellectual property.

The bought and paid for, by Chinese money, Biden Justice Department? Yeah, right. I am sure they will get right on it.

6 posted on 04/25/2021 12:22:32 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: SeekAndFind

China as well as our own government, If you want to be funded here is the narrative to follow and the list of untruths you will agree to


7 posted on 04/25/2021 3:49:40 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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8 posted on 04/25/2021 4:56:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hang a few of them and this will stop.

L


9 posted on 04/25/2021 4:59:51 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. , )
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To: SeekAndFind

Hundreds of US “reporters” are most likely on the China payroll. When you lose the press to foreigners, then you can lose the country.


10 posted on 04/25/2021 5:51:12 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: SeekAndFind

The CCP also has bought America’s political class, judicial system, the media, and financial and manufacturing engines.


11 posted on 04/25/2021 9:35:08 AM PDT by myerson
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To: SeekAndFind

the tech sector has been infiltrated by the chinese for years

in the last 10+ years, they’ve been buying tech companies

my specialty has been high performance communications. realizing this could be of strategic value, i reached out to the FBI to ask whether or not a particular company whose parent company is tencent (chinese owned) would be a problem.

they didn’t care.

that’s concerning


12 posted on 04/25/2021 9:43:37 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: Bayard

Su-prise, su-prise! Who knew?

Politicians can be bought, but somehow we’re to believe “scientists” are never for sale? It’s too often just a question of “how much?”...

Want a “scientific” paper or study to support the “need” for your pet legislation? You’ll find a whore...err...”scientist” who can cook the data and working backwards get to the “proof” you need...

Globull Warming is offered as Exhibit A...


13 posted on 04/25/2021 11:58:10 AM PDT by elteemike (Light is faster than sound; that's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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