"Staff members at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have been instructed to remove the words "biodefense" and "pandemic preparedness" from the institute's web pages, according to e-mails seen by Nature. The agency - one of 27 institutes and centres at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) - is expected to deprioritize the two topics in an overhaul of its funded research projects."
"On-and-off fasting - in which people alternate between periods of restricted and normal eating - is no more effective a weight-loss plan than conventional diets, and is only slightly more effective than not dieting at all. In a major review of 22 studies conducted across 5 continents, researchers found that intermittent fasting helped people lose around 3% of their body weight, less than is considered clinically meaningful."
NIAID staff were instructed to remove the terms "biodefense" and "pandemic preparedness" from institute web pages as the institute reprioritizes funded research toward basic immunology and infectious diseases currently affecting people in the United States. A major review of 22 intermittent-fasting studies across five continents found average weight loss of about 3%, below clinically meaningful thresholds, with much of the evidence short-term and of poor quality. A new platform, RentAHuman.ai, allows AI agents to pay humans to complete tasks by advertising time and skills. Attention is being directed toward improving assessment of public scientific understanding.
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