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NIH, agency scientists received estimated $350 million in royalty payments over last decade: report
The government health agency continues to withhold key details about the sources and allocations of the large streams of cash flowing to its scientists.he National Institutes of Health and its scientists received an estimated $350 million in royalties from third-party payers between 2010 and 2020, according to an investigation by government transparency watchdog Open the Books.The third-party payers are, according to the report, mostly pharmaceutical companies that credit NIH scientists as coinventors on various patents.
"Because those payments enrich the agency and its scientists, each and every royalty payment could be a potential conflict of interest and needs disclosure," writes Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpentheBooks.com and the report's author.
NIH disclosed 22,100 royalty payments totaling nearly $134 million made to the government science agency and almost 1,700 of its scientists between roughly fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2015. The limited disclosures were made after OpentheBooks.com sued in federal court for access to the information.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/nih-and-its-scientists-received-estimated-350-million-royalty-payments
UPDATE, Mooney Wins – MAGA Test in West Virginia, Establishment David McKinley vs Trump-Backed Alex Mooney
May 10, 2022 |
In an unusual incumbent vs. incumbent Republican House primary – due to West Virginia losing a House seat, West Virginia’s CD-02 has become a “near-perfect distillation of the split in the G.O.P., with Representative David B. McKinley, who is soft spoken and intent on getting things done, facing a more hard-edged, Trump-aligned ideological candidate, Representative Alex X. Mooney,” according to the New York Times.
Despite the McKinley advantage because the redrawn district is considerably more McKinley than Mooney territory, it looks like Trump-Endorsed Alex Mooney is going to win.
UPDATE: Mooney Wins – President Trump now 56-0 with 2022 endorsements
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/