The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
We are National Institutes of Health scientists and administrators with more than 50 years of collective civil service.
Or, more accurately, we were NIH scientists and administrators.
At the beginning of 2025, we anticipated changes with the new administration, but expected that rigorous scientific inquiry would continue to be valued. After all, the country’s health research infrastructure, considered the most prestigious in the world, had always garnered broad bipartisan support.
Over the course of the year, as we witnessed the Trump administration’s reckless policies, we tried to protect the science we had always championed. We spoke up when we could, and in June we joined hundreds of our colleagues in signing the Bethesda Declaration, an open letter to the NIH director detailing how several new policies were undermining scientific integrity and the institute’s mission.
But we can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity. In recent months, each of us independently reached the decision to resign in protest of the actions of an administration that treats science not as a process for building knowledge, but as a means to advance its political agenda. One of us resigned just Friday.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/nih-resign-protest-four-leaders-cite-interference-censorship/
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