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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: A Cozy System
Description: Transparency is key to government accountability. But bureaucrats at the National Institutes of Health—the NIH—have steadfastly opposed transparency. Their leaders, Anthony Fauci and Lawrence Tabak, resisted sharing the names of companies that have paid NIH scientists third party royalties. But a lawsuit by nonprofit Open the Books has finally forced transparency on NIH. We now know that NIH scientists collected some $325 million dollars in third party royalties between 2009 and 2020. Companies including pharmaceutical firms controlled by the Chinese Communist Party paid NIH to license technologies developed with US tax dollars. Last year alon...