The Democratic Party of Congress has emerged as advocates for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) current voices and is the son of a scientist associated with the agency that fought.
Massachusetts Rep. Jake Ochincross has opposed Trump's cuts at the NIH. Residential Energy and Commercial Commission The February 25 markup argues that “curiosity-driven, peer-reviewed basic research is not intended to pass the test of politicians.”
But Auchicloss may have a conflict of interest: his parents. Auchicloss' father, Hugh Auchicloss, was an aide to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 16 years. Run of the Mills bureaucrats piloted school studies at NIAID from 2014 to 2015, and intervened as NIAID's proxy director from 2022 to 2023.
Although it normally works behind the scenes, Auchicloss' name was published in an email revealed under Freedom of Information Law By BuzzFeed News in 2021. Zoo's inner circle officials, including Elder Autinkoros, discussed personally about the study supported by Niaid with the Uhan Institute in February 2020. (Related: Exclusive: Over 12 states look for potential animal-producing fees despite Biden's forgiveness)
Specifically, the email showed that Hugh Auchincloss personally supported the enemy I sought information Why coronavirus research using Wuhan Lab has not been checked through stricter protocols even though Fauci has become public I underestimated the possibility of viruses generated in the lab.
Around 2.5 months later, until April 2020, debate began on possible connections between Uhan's coronavirus research and the new pandemic. Mainstream discourse.
Basic science is inspired by curiosity, accountable for evidence, and subject to peer review. Politics should have no role. pic.twitter.com/vosahni7cg
– Rep. Jake Auchicloss (@Repauchicloss) February 25, 2025
Meanwhile, Laurie H. Glimcher, the mother of a lawmaker, former president and CEO of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has chopped five papers with irregularities and errors, reported by the New York Times, including evidence of image manipulation caused by scientific detectives. The person who made the headlines in his discovery last year. All of these papers were supported by NIH funding.
A paper from the prestigious journal Science co-authored by Glimcher It has been withdrawn in April 202418 years after publication. Notice of withdrawal It admits “contradictions” in some of the journal's numbers. “The author is no longer convinced that these figures support the conclusion.”
Glimcher did not respond to requests for comment.
House Energy and Commerce Committee markup included approval and oversight plans for the 119th Congress. But Aucincolos was one of the Democrats who used markup to discipline entrepreneur Elon Musk's government efficiency (DOGE) actions, who ranked parts of the scientific community.
NIH announces a 15% cap for administrative overhead in grants February 7thchallenged movements Three lawsuits. an Estimated 1,165 Probation NIH Employees (4.6% Workforce of 25,000 people) I was fired over the weekend February 14th. The research section assessing new foreign grants has been suspended, though It has been partially restored.
Labreek Panic
In February 2020, Fauci contacted Elder Auchincloss within hours of discovering the relationship between his institute and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“It's important,” wrote Fauci. Email Subject To Elder Ochinkoros at 12:29am on February 1, 2020 – hours after I heard from the virologist that the genome of the new novel coronavirus was being signed by engineering. This email was released in a tranches obtained by BuzzFeed News.
“Hugh: It's essential to talk about this. Turn on your phone,” Fauci said in an email. “I have a task for today.”
Fauci also instructed Hugh Auchincloss to read the files attached to the email.
Given its omitted name, the attachment is likely 2015 Nature Medicine Paper Zhengli Shi, senior scientist at Woohan University's Institute of Virology, and Ralph Barrick, a virologist at the University of North Carolina, describe a collaboration written by the NIH on experiments generating novel SARS-related coronaviruses.
was asked in Transcripted interviews with the council About the “task” he had hoped for what he would do, Hugh Achinkoros said he couldn't remember all the details. He said he was asked to determine whether the research described in the paper passed a committee that is supposed to scrutinise the most risky research. Potential Pandemic Pathogens Committee (P3CO).
That wasn't the case. The evidence would do so It will appear later Other officials in the Niad's Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Division had granted the grantees. Decide what you are Gain-of-function research rules.
“The only task I remember was to read the paper and try to understand it. “What I think was intended was because Ralph Barrick in the paper was talking about gain of function research, so I thought it was a study that got the function of concern. After all, it was [NIAID] The Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department and they determined that it was not a study that was not a concern. ”
The NIAID internal filename, which describes the experiment, contained the phrase “get feature.” This is the term NIAID, which is used to describe experiments that increase virus deadness and infectivity, but Fauci later argued that the experiment was not an gain of function that includes testimony of oath. The enemy was given later Complete and unconditional pardon President Biden at the time.
Concerns circulating among Niad's leaders about Wuhan's association with the institute with coronavirus research remained internal. Fauci was involved behind the scenes New paper Natural Medicine, published in March 2020, helped to undermine speculation about possible links between research projects written in Niad and the emerging pandemic.
Hugh Auchincloss could not be reached for comment. He retired from NIH in September 2024, and his email Biography Web Page It no longer works on NIH.
Dana Farber withdrawal
Grimmcher, at once Rumor candidate He left his position at the top of Dana Farber in September 2024 to replace Francis Collins as NIH director.
Several reports have been pointed out Glimcher's controversial decision Splitting Dana Farber from his long-standing partnership with Brigham and Women's Hospital as a driving force for leadership change.
However, the stepdown also coincided with scientific detective Sholto David. At least 75 papers Written by Dana Farber's Glimcher and other scientists – at least Six retractions and 31 amendments.
The Papers Glimcher Coauthored, which was expanded from 2003 to 2012, was featured in prestigious magazines such as Science and Neuron.
Two of these papers were slapped in revisions and one was withdrawn. Glimcher was the senior author of one of these papers. Innate Immunology.
The paper contains “some impressive contributions to the art, but perhaps not science,” David said. I wrote it in a blog post.
David, who lives in Wales and holds a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology, spoke to the Daily Call News Foundation about Pubpeer, a website that scientists use as a comment section between papers published in scientific journals.
David said the scientific community has made little effort to improve the integrity of the research following the Dana Faber controversy and other well-known retractions.
“Scientists often argue for the success of their colleagues, but are not responsible for fraud or failure,” David said. “There was little introspection to understand what was wrong.”
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