$23 BILLION NIH Give Aways, No Oversight

From the NYT

“For us to try to manage directly the conflict-of-interest of an N.I.H. [National Institute of Health] investigator would be not only inappropriate but pretty much impossible,” said Dr. Norka Ruiz Bravo, the institutes’ deputy director for extramural research.

The health institutes awarded more than $23 billion last year through over 50,000 competitive grants to more than 325,000 researchers at over 3,000 universities. Each grant typically underwrites only a part of the cost of the research at issue.

Indeed, academic medicine has become so rife with conflicts of interests in recent years that the Food and Drug Administration has complained that it has difficulty finding experts for its advisory boards who do not have a conflict."

Inappropriate? Impossible?
There's only 1 response to a $23 Billion dollar gaff like that.

"Ms. Bravo: You're FIRED."


Antipsychotics induce Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Tardive Dyskinesias, and Death.

"Inappropriate? Impossible? $23 Billion in Tax Subsidies? $238,000 from an Antipsychotic manufacturer to help peddle the stuff? (WSJ) To children?

Ya know; If you Useless Bureaucrats at NIH spent even 1/2 a Billion of what you're throwing at bribe taking 'Researchers', Investigating them, you could easily afford to police ALL of the money you're wasting on junk-science like Psychiatric Genetics and Schizophrenia Neuroimaging right out of the national debt, and every tax payer's personal misery index.