Posted on 08/12/2023 5:45:09 PM PDT by bitt
National Institutes of Health scientists raked in more than $325 million in royalties from Chinese and Russian entities — as well as pharmaceutical companies — over more than a decade, according to a new report.
Former NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci were among the thousands of government whitecoats who took the cash between September 2009 and October 2020, the taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks.com revealed on Wednesday.
Several of those royalties came from companies that in turn received federal contracts and grants, prompting concerns about conflicts of interest.
Collins, for instance, took licensing payments from at least four firms that have been awarded nearly $50 million from the US government since 2008.
“As the most recognized official at NIH, Dr. Anthony Fauci was the face of the third-party royalties controversy. But our investigation was about a lot more than any single scientist,” OpenTheBooks.com Founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski said in a statement.
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Inventors get royalties.
Companies license patents.
Paid assassins is what they really are.
Couldn’t have said it better.
The “old” pass through. I send you a grant from other people’s money, and you remit some of it to me. We both win and “they” lose.
Paid assassins is what they really are.
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That why one of my name’s for him is
hitman.
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Big monetary circle jerk....with “we” the unwashed as an expendable commodity. How do they sleep at night?
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