🚨 $52 BILLION.
That’s how much the NIH gets every year — from you.
But instead of funding breakthrough cures, it’s bloated with bureaucracy, silos, and paper-pushing.
It’s time to ask: Isn't it time we fund real science… instead of just sustaining the swamp? 🧵
That’s how much the NIH gets every year — from you.
But instead of funding breakthrough cures, it’s bloated with bureaucracy, silos, and paper-pushing.
It’s time to ask: Isn't it time we fund real science… instead of just sustaining the swamp? 🧵
2/ The NIH should be a rocket ship for discovery.
Instead, $9 billion went just to admin overhead last year — not labs, not cures, not patients.
Petri dishes? No.
Paperwork? Yes.
Plus all that bioweapons research, of course....
Instead, $9 billion went just to admin overhead last year — not labs, not cures, not patients.
Petri dishes? No.
Paperwork? Yes.
Plus all that bioweapons research, of course....
3/ The NIH is 27 different fiefdoms, barely talking to each other.
Overlap, duplication, and dysfunction are rampant.
This isn’t how you run a modern research institution.
It’s how you avoid real breakthroughs and lose the race to China.
Overlap, duplication, and dysfunction are rampant.
This isn’t how you run a modern research institution.
It’s how you avoid real breakthroughs and lose the race to China.
4/ Real science is:
⚡ Fast
🤝 Collaborative
🎯 Accountable
💡 Bold
NIH science is:
🐢 Slow
📎 Bureaucratic
🕵️♂️ Opaque
😴 "Safe"
No wonder visionary ideas — like new Alzheimer’s treatments and life extension tech — get passed over.
⚡ Fast
🤝 Collaborative
🎯 Accountable
💡 Bold
NIH science is:
🐢 Slow
📎 Bureaucratic
🕵️♂️ Opaque
😴 "Safe"
No wonder visionary ideas — like new Alzheimer’s treatments and life extension tech — get passed over.
5/ Want innovation? Fund outsiders.
But NIH funding overwhelmingly goes to the same elite institutions, year after year.
In 2023, half the grants went to just 10 states.
What about the genius in Idaho? Or the startup in Iowa?
They never get a shot.
But NIH funding overwhelmingly goes to the same elite institutions, year after year.
In 2023, half the grants went to just 10 states.
What about the genius in Idaho? Or the startup in Iowa?
They never get a shot.
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