NIH Scientists Personally Collecting Royalty Payments from Taxpayer-Funded Inventions

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At what point will the DOJ and / or FBI do anything? Seems that they are worse than during the J Edgar Hoover days. That's what retired FBI agents are telling me down here. They don't care much for Wray. Rand Paul was on the Fauci trail and finally something popped as Paul did make a criminal referral against Dr. Fauci to the DOJ. All this makes Watergate look like a milk and cookies time out.

Watchdog group reveals Fauci and NIH scientists personally collecting royalty payments from taxpayer-funded inventions

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Newly released unredacted documents reveal third-party royalties paid to National Institutes of Health scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, before, during, and after the pandemic. These new findings raise more questions about Fauci's statements to lawmakers during congressional hearings.

The transparency watchdog OpenTheBooks released more than 1,500 pages of records revealing that NIH leadership and thousands of scientists personally received royalty payments from companies licensing their inventions that were made with taxpayer money.

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NIH leadership, including Fauci, claimed while testifying before Congress that they could not release the names of the companies paying the NIH third-party royalties. OpenTheBooks filed a lawsuit with Judicial Watch on its Freedom of Information Act request to get the documents released from the NIH.

The new report from the watchdog showed payments between September 2009 and October 2020. Several of the royalty payments were from companies that received federal contracts and grants, which could be considered a conflict of interest. The NIH allows scientists to receive no more than $150,000 annually from royalties.

Plenty of reasons Fauci and gang belong in prison, but if they did the work and created the inventions then I have no issue with this. Whether or not the government should be spending money on some if not all research is outside the scope of this comment, if the government is going to 'help' science they should not basically steal the scientist's life work in the process.

a reply to: Waterglass

that's why smilin francis collins bailed before anybody else.
wonder if anyone knows if he retired to a non extradition island country

a reply to: Waterglass

I read about this already three or four years ago, even before the pandemic it has been going on. Also, research colleges funded by NIH are acquiring more guaranteed funding by remaining mute about that stuff they discovered being sold by people in the health agencies to pharma companies. Grease our palms with extra research money and we will look the other way.

a reply to: rickymouse

IMO this should not be allowed but they set these limits as they must know that bribes were being handed out like candy even before.

Trust science?

I don't think so.

When you sign up with a record label, you sold the creative rights and the royalties come from the original contract that is dependent on the profits made by the label. If the label can't pay off the overhead, like production and distribution costs, the songwriter never sees any of the royalties. Not so in this deal, that seems wrong to me.