Dr. Jay Bhattacharya promised on Wednesday to bring sunlight to the National Institutes of Health if confirmed as the agency’s director.
Speaking before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Bhattacharya rebuked the NIH for its behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he said did great damage to trust in scientists and academic institutions. Bhattacharya, an outspoken critic of the COVID lockdowns, was one of the first to express concerns about the safety and efficacy of vaccine mandates.
A professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, Bhattacharya promised to bring greater transparency to the American people about the NIH’s research, which he said had failed in its fundamental mission.
“The mission of the NIH is to address the health needs the American people have and to expand life expectancy of the American people. And we have not achieved that….
