Reform Proposals for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Excerpt:  “In recent years the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have gradually incorporated controversial ideas about ‘social justice’ into all aspects of its organizational life. NIH has built a sprawling Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy, launched programs to promote DEI principles in research, and devoted millions of taxpayer dollars to ideologically driven research on gender transition. Since the launch of the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) in 2015, the NIH has allocated almost $628 million dollars to transgender research more broadly across over 300 grants. … NIH’s embrace of DEI has created a culture of intellectual homogeneity that inhibits the pursuit of the institute’s core mission, to ‘seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health.’ Worse, it has led the institute to fund and promote research programs that harm Americans and undermine public trust in the U.S. health and health research systems. No group is served by a research agenda that funds only favored perspectives and pre-approved narratives.”