Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing “a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.” In a June 9 letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, NIH workers said...
Every institution gets corrupted to some degree over time. As with the Fed, managers and executives of even the best institutions have a dual mandate: ensure that the ostensible purpose of the organization is pursued, AND ensure that the institution thrives. On top of that, everybody in the institution wants to further their own interests,...
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