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NIH scientists made $710M in royalties from drug makers — a fact they tried to hide
New York Post ^ | June 2, 2024, | Adam Andrzejewski

Posted on 06/02/2024 12:09:29 PM PDT by george76

During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma.

Now we know just how close they were.

New data from the National Institutes of Health reveals the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists.

Almost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.

Information about this vast private royalty complex is tightly held by NIH. My organization, OpenTheBooks.com, was forced to sue to uncover the royalties paid from September 2009 to October 2021, which amounted to $325 million over 56,000 transactions.

We had to sue a second time, with Judicial Watch as our counsel, to pry open this new release.

Payments skyrocketed during the pandemic era: those years saw more than double the amount of cash flow to NIH from the private sector, compared to the prior twelve combined. All told, it’s $1.036 billion.

It’s unclear if any of the Covid vaccine royalties from Pfizer and Moderna, the latter of which settled with NIH by agreeing to pay $400 million, is even included in these new numbers. NIH isn’t saying.

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Fauci won’t be able to misspell words to evade scrutiny or have folks physically courier messages — just two of the FOIA-avoiding actions described by Dr. David Morens, a key Fauci deputy.

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Fauci wraps five decades in government having become its highest-paid bureaucrat, he should consider ticking those boxes again. For old times’ sake.

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


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1 posted on 06/02/2024 12:09:29 PM PDT by george76
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How do you spell “corruption”? F-A-U-C-I.


2 posted on 06/02/2024 12:14:59 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: george76

Make no mistake. These were bribes. These government employees accepted bribes that also harmed the tax payers. There should be no mercy. Mass murder charges for all of them.


3 posted on 06/02/2024 12:16:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: george76

zero private money should go directly to ANY FedGov agency: it should all go into the general fund and CONGRESS should allocate all said monies according to the US Constitution ...


4 posted on 06/02/2024 12:25:55 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: george76

A few years before covid, Ralph Baric exposed a scheme by well connected researchers and government officials to cash in on the next pandemic while he was giving a public presentation at a conference


5 posted on 06/02/2024 12:33:36 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: MtnClimber

Mass murder of innocent human beings. RIP DG. RIP DF.


6 posted on 06/02/2024 12:38:17 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: george76

Without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240602191250/https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/opinion/nih-scientists-made-710m-in-royalties-from-drug-makers-a-fact-they-tried-to-hide/


7 posted on 06/02/2024 1:08:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: george76

This information has been available since 2010 and Fauci and the NIH unethical have been collecting patent royalties since the GRIDS epidemic. It is easily obtainable in an information search.


8 posted on 06/02/2024 1:10:45 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: george76

Pure Bribes. What was Fauci’s payoff.


9 posted on 06/02/2024 1:16:56 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: george76

Fake news. Trump, in Iowa talk d about the billions saved worldwide by operation warp speed. Iowa agreed and voted for him en masse.
He saved us with th Faucis help… and that’s why Trump rightfully gave him the prez commendation.
It was about lives and we are grateful.


10 posted on 06/02/2024 1:22:16 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Can you do the same for this one?

After Long Delay, Moderna Pays N.I.H. for Covid Vaccine Technique
Moderna has paid $400 million to the government for a chemical technique key to its vaccine. But the parties are still locked in a high-stakes dispute over a different patent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/science/moderna-covid-vaccine-patent-nih.html


11 posted on 06/02/2024 1:23:17 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: vetvetdoug

I think what is being mentioned, $710 million dollars paid to government agencies between late 2021 through 2023, largely a result of COVID vaccines I assume IS new information.

That is new.

That people in NIH and other branches like it get royalties is not new to anyone who pays attention, but that amount in that time probably due to COVID royalties...is.


12 posted on 06/02/2024 1:39:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: george76

btt


13 posted on 06/02/2024 2:17:08 PM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: george76

Disgraceful, absolutely!


14 posted on 06/02/2024 2:18:10 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: MtnClimber

Confiscate everything they accepted and then fine them for half their assets


15 posted on 06/02/2024 3:03:17 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: george76

Good place to start the hangings.


16 posted on 06/02/2024 3:47:35 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: george76

safe and effective...


17 posted on 06/02/2024 4:02:09 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240117022056/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/science/moderna-covid-vaccine-patent-nih.html


18 posted on 06/02/2024 5:05:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thank you.

Wow, but there are some gems in this article.

“The N.I.H. said its scientists, some of whom had been collaborating for years with Moderna, had helped to design that sequence. Moderna also received nearly $10 billion in taxpayer funding to develop and test the vaccine, and to provide doses to the federal government.”

“But even as the fight over the sequence attracted public attention, including suggestions from the N.I.H. that it might consider legal action, another standoff played out largely in private, this one concerning the chemical tweak that was the subject of the payments announced on Thursday.

That technique was integral to a number of coronavirus vaccines, including Moderna’s, scientists said. It entailed changing the mRNA code within the vaccines so that they would help people generate an immune response to the version of spike proteins present on the surface of the coronavirus before they fused with human cells.”

“Under the agreement with Moderna, the company made what it described as a $400 million “catch-up payment” to the N.I.H. “


19 posted on 06/02/2024 7:06:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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Confiscate the $710M and their pensions to pay for vax injuries. Fire them if they aren’t already.


20 posted on 06/02/2024 7:17:31 PM PDT by curious7
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