The article argues that ongoing attacks on the NIH by political figures threaten not only the continued success of biomedical research in the United States but also its commitment to diversity and equity in science. Highlighting that NIH funding has significant positive economic impacts, creating jobs, and advancing healthcare, the author warns against recent moves to undermine this agency through freezing funding and censorship of language. Such actions, framed as part of a political agenda, potentially lead toward a biased scientific environment.
By some estimates in the fiscal year 2023, NIH funding created over 400,000 jobs across the US and pumped $92 billion into towns and cities across the country.
Their plan is to attack the NIH with deep ideological motives in order to root out any focus on anyone other than white people and to shrink the agency.
If you are banning terms that refer to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and words like 'equity' from grants, you are building a white supremacist architecture for science in the United States.
The earliest moves made against the NIH, in late January, were meant to destabilize the system: The administration froze grant funding, banned communication from agency employees.
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