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ER Editor: This smells to us like another Big Moment that could pave the way for something big coming. Some tweets —
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Dr. Bhattacharya witnessed NIH staff walk out of his meeting after stating ‘Covid’ came from a Lab which was funded by the NIH itself. His reply…
“It’s nice to have free speech. You’re welcome, you guys…”
pic.twitter.com/TMnFCpaSqF— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) May 20, 2025
NIH chief Jay Bhattacharya held a townhall, and when he dared suggest Covid might’ve come from a lab, staffers walked out while on the clock and on the taxpayer’s dime. That kind of childish tantrum proves once again that it all needs to be burned down. pic.twitter.com/bAzO6FG1IB
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 20, 2025
Dr. Bhattacharya on GOF research:
“I don’t think the NIH should be doing any research that has the potential to cause a pandemic. There were FOIA requests that were fully redacted…you can’t have trust unless you are fully transparent.”
CONFIRM HIM pic.twitter.com/m5ywiKktgz— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) March 5, 2025
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Trump’s new top doctor triggers mass walkout of staffers with jaw-dropping statement
LUKE ANDREWS for DAILY MAIL
Dozens of NIH staff stormed out of a packed auditorium yesterday after a Trump-appointed doctor suggested the US helped start the Covid pandemic.
The government employees, some wearing face masks, walked out as Dr Jay Bhattacharya delivered his first town hall speech as head of America’s top research institution.
Moments earlier, the NIH boss said: ‘It’s possible that the pandemic was caused by research conducted by human beings, and it’s also possible that the NIH partly sponsored that research.’
He then broke off as at least 30 scientists stormed out, before calling after them, ‘It’s nice to have free speech. You’re welcome, you guys.’
In the years leading up to the pandemic, the NIH was funding controversial virus manipulation experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the CIA and FBI believe the Covid virus leaked from.
After the scientists left, Dr Bhattacharya continued:
‘If it’s true that we sponsored research that caused the pandemic — and if you look at polls of the American people, that’s what most people believe, and I’ve looked at the scientific evidence and I believe it — [then] what we have to do is make sure that we don’t engage in research that is any risk…to human populations.’
Dr Bhattacharya was talking the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, around 1pm when the walkout happened.
The environment was already tense, given that up to $2.7billion in funding has been cut from the department by the new Trump administration.
More than 1,200 members of staff are also thought to have been laid off.
Dr Bhattacharya started the town hall nervously, employees who attended told the federal news website Government Executive.
He also walked out to a stony silence at the start of the town hall, rather than the usual applause afforded to directors.
During the town hall, Dr Bhattacharya faced heckling over cuts to the NIH’s budget, but argued they were necessary and dismissed some of the work as ‘ideological’ in nature.
‘There’s been a line of research supported by the NIH that I don’t actually fundamentally believe is scientific,‘ he said, ‘and that is ideological in nature’.
‘That doesn’t advance the health and well-being of anybody, but it does diminish public trust.’
He clarified that this included research into ‘structural racism’, prompting backlash from a member of the audience.
Dr Bhattacharya also touted Trump’s new executive order during the town hall that ended funding for gain-of-function research in countries of concern.
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