They have been studying respiratory viruses for years.
You know what we are finding out though? They sure do get a lot of royalties from various companies. That couldn't possibly influence whether suddenly the people telling us for years that masks don't work, now say take a shot from a company that donates to them and oh by the way wear a mask.
After reading this I realize I made a poor career choice. I should have been a "scientist" pursuing the truth at the NIH.
The National Institutes of Health received verified royalties amounting to $134 million from 2009-2014, with more yet to be revealed. The NIH is in the midst of fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act request detailing the royalty payments of its various leaders since 2010. BIDEN...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
We found agency leadership and top scientists at NIH receiving royalty payments. Well-known scientists receiving payments during the period included:
"Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the highest-paid federal bureaucrat, received 23 royalty payments. (Fauci's 2021 taxpayer-funded salary: $456,028 ).
Francis Collins, NIH director from 2009-2021, received 14 payments. (Collins' 2021 taxpayer-funded salary: $203,500)
Clifford Lane, Fauci's deputy at NIAID, received 8 payments. (Lane's 2021 taxpayer-funded salary: $325,287)"
Its the first time since 2005 that the NIH royalty payments receive oversight.
www.openthebooks.com
Just highlighting this:
While we at least know about that one -- because it was publicly awarded, instead of secretly insinuated into Fauci's bank accounts -- civil servants should not be allowed to accept "prizes" which amount to, in essence, a cash bounty (or bribe) awarded by a partisan organization for taking a political position for or against the president.
Fauci's been a government bureaucrat all his life. He joined in 1968, straight after his medical residency.
Why would he have royalties in any private company's patents?*
Remember, Anthony Fauci has previously
lied under oath, or, let us say, made false statements while testifying to Congress. He claimed that all of his financial records were publicly available.
"Today, NIH is a revolving door of tens of billions of dollars in government grant-making coupled with hundreds of millions of dollars in private -- non-transparent -- royalty payments.
There needs to be a lot more sunshine on this potentially unholy alliance.
When a federal bureaucrat pops up on television giving us health instructions, who has paid them and for what research and technology? When a patient agrees to a clinical trial or experimental treatment, what financial interests are involved?
Rather than relentless redactions and prolonged court battles, it's past time for the government to disclose royalty payments as a matter of routine."
In fact, they're almost entirely redacted.