NIH Employees Protest Dr. Bhattacharya Telling Them the Truth

[Timber Rattler]

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/05/21/nih-employees-protest-dr-bhattacharya-telling-them-the-truth-n3802982

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, which often diverge from the two explicit mandates.

Corruption is inevitable because these three imperatives clash, and the latter two always win out in the long run, even in businesses where the profit motive, which supposedly aligns all three of them, falls prey to this same problem. That's why big businesses so often need to be restructured--bureaucratic inertia and competing divisions pursuing their own interests undermine efficiency. That's how you get DEI, ESG, and plain old inefficiency.

Government and NGOs almost never get restructured. The result is that their original mission fades into the background in favor of self-dealing. There is no way to enforce accountability, and so everybody looks out for himself.

That's how you get scenes like this:

https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1924818655595934000

EXCERPT

Every single one of those NIH employees who walked out on their boss should be fired!

[jafo2010]

Dr Bhattacharya  before being approved announced that there would not be any cuts in the NIH.  He sounded very defensive of the institute, and the fact is, he should have waited until he got there and got a first hand taste of the waste.

I have spent much of my life streamlining corporations and government operations, making them more profitable and efficient.  The NIH is no different than any operational body, and the fact is, being a federal operation, 40% could be cut and what is left would be more productive, and would produce far more results.  I know this for fact.  Bloated operations as exist in the federal government go way past the point of diminishing returns, with the folks there producing less and less.  How many contractors are at the NIH?  Jettison them all.  Make the employees do the work once more.  And that would be a start with no lawsuits, etc.

Trump had the right idea, but the worst approach.  His following Musk's advice, which will result in many RIFFED being brought back by stinking judges, with their pay being ordered to be paid back to day one of their separation. 

And all that drama for a big fat nothing.  Just plain stupid.  We already know that Justice Roberts hates Trump.  Don't hold your breath for results.

[Timber Rattler]

Trump had the right idea, but the worst approach.  His following Musk's advice, which will result in many RIFFED being brought back by stinking judges, with their pay being ordered to be paid back to day one of their separation. 

And all that drama for a big fat nothing.  Just plain stupid.  We already know that Justice Roberts hates Trump.  Don't hold your breath for results.

I agree with all that you say here.