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Swede

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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:59 PM Nov 13

NIH is in trouble,Trump is trying to replace scientists with political hires. [View all]

Par for the course with this guy and his gang.


A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.

A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Mark Histed (@markhisted.org) 2025-11-13T22:31:26.316Z

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