Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

<p>My guest is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/jay-bhattacharya-begins-tenure-18th-director-national-institutes-health">Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)</a> and <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/jay-bhattacharya">Professor Emeritus of Health Policy at Stanford University</a>. We discuss which scientific questions ought to be the priority for NIH, how to incentivize bold, innovative science especially from younger labs, how to solve the replication crisis and restore trust and transparency in science and public health, including acknowledging prior failures by the NIH. We discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and the data and sociological factors that motivated lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates. Dr. Bhattacharya shares his views on how to resolve the vaccine–autism debate and how best to find the causes and cures for autism and chronic diseases. The topics we cover impact everyone: male, female, young and old and, given that NIH is the premier research and public health organization in the world, extend to Americans and non-Americans alike.</p>
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<p><strong>Timestamps</strong></p>
<p>00:00:00 Jay Bhattacharya</p>
<p>00:06:56 National Institutes of Health (NIH), Mission</p>
<p>00:09:12 Funding, Basic vs. Applied Research</p>
<p>00:18:22 Sponsors: David &amp; Eight Sleep</p>
<p>00:21:20 Indirect Costs (IDC), Policies &amp; Distribution</p>
<p>00:30:43 Taxpayer Funding, Journal Access, Public Transparency</p>
<p>00:38:14 Taxpayer Funding, Patents; Drug Costs in the USA vs Other Countries</p>
<p>00:48:50 Reducing Medication Prices; R&amp;D, Improving Health</p>
<p>01:00:01 Sponsors: AG1 &amp; Levels</p>
<p>01:02:55 Lowering IDC?, Endowments, Monetary Distribution, Scientific Groupthink</p>
<p>01:12:29 Grant Review Process, Innovation</p>
<p>01:21:43 R01s, Tenure, Early Career Scientists &amp; Novel Ideas</p>
<p>01:31:46 Sociology of Grant Evaluation, Careerism in Science, Failures</p>
<p>01:39:08 “Sick Care” System, Health Needs</p>
<p>01:44:01 Sponsor: LMNT</p>
<p>01:45:33 Incentives in Science, H-Index, Replication Crisis</p>
<p>01:58:54 Scientists, Data Fraud, Changing Careers</p>
<p>02:03:59 NIH &amp; Changing Incentive Structure, Replication, Pro-Social Behavior</p>
<p>02:15:26 Scientific Discovery, Careers &amp; Changing Times, Journals &amp; Publications</p>
<p>02:19:56 NIH Grants &amp; Appeals, Under-represented Populations, DEI</p>
<p>02:28:58 Inductive vs Deductive Science; DEI &amp; Grants; Young Scientists &amp; NIH Funding</p>
<p>02:39:38 Grant Funding, Identity &amp; Race; Shift in NIH Priorities</p>
<p>02:51:23 Public Trust &amp; Science, COVID Pandemic, Lockdowns, Masks</p>
<p>03:04:41 Pandemic Mandates &amp; Economic Inequality; Fear; Public Health &amp; Free Speech</p>
<p>03:13:39 Masks, Harms, Public Health Messaging, Uniformity, Groupthink, Vaccines</p>
<p>03:22:48 Academic Ostracism, Public Health Messaging &amp; Opposition</p>
<p>03:30:26 Culture of American Science, Discourse &amp; Disagreement</p>
<p>03:36:03 Vaccines, COVID Vaccines, Benefits &amp; Harms</p>
<p>03:47:05 Vaccine Mandates, Money, Public Health Messaging, Civil Liberties</p>
<p>03:54:52 COVID Vaccines, Long-Term Effects; Long COVID, Vaccine Injury, Flu Shots</p>
<p>04:06:47 Do Vaccines Cause Autism?; What Explains Rise in Autism</p>
<p>04:18:33 Autism &amp; NIH; MAHA &amp; Restructuring NIH?</p>
<p>04:25:47 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify &amp; Apple Follow &amp; Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter</p>
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