OPINION: President Donald Trump should rein in the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies from funding politicized research that serves to push a leftist political agenda
President Donald Trump has an opportunity in his second term to clean house at the National Institutes of Health and other ostensibly science-based government entities.
Through the years, the NIH has poured millions of dollars into ideological studies under the guise of research. This includes a “transgender voice training” app, a study on how to reach gender-confused kids without their parents’ knowledge, and “improv[ing] communication” between parents and their homosexual sons.
It also has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on research that purports to find a link between racism and health.
Furthermore, the studies have thrown the basics of the scientific method aside – one recent grant aimed to “generate evidence” in support of cognitive bias training on the dubious claims that racism can change one’s brain.
There are some positive signs in how Trump is thinking about science and health policy – his unconventional pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one.
There are also rumors as of Thursday that he is considering two COVID truthtellers for important science positions. The 45th and 47th president is reportedly considering Marty Makary, a skeptic of widespread lockdowns, to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Similarly, Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya is a rumored pick to lead the NIH.
Both are well-respected scholars who faced pushback within the public health establishment for their levelheaded critiques of devastating COVID lockdowns. President Joe Biden’s team even ordered social media companies to censor Bhattacharya.
The American public is rightly skeptical of the scientific establishment – remember, you couldn’t go to church or have 11 people over because of the virus. However, COVID would not afflict you if you were rioting in the street in support of George Floyd via the established scientific process known as wishful thinking.
One reason Trump won is his partnering with RFK Jr. on a pledge to “Make America Healthy Again.” That starts by restoring trust in scientific research and also ensuring taxpayer dollars are actually studying matters of health – causes of heart attacks, nutrition, and how to prevent cancer.
The government should not be funding studies on how parents can talk to their gay sons or funding research on how to get around parents when it comes to a 9-year-old girl who thinks she is a boy.
That is unjust – and not science. The public health establishment damaged the country through its unscientific policies – it should be rightly punished.
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