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Regulatory capture at its finest. They should all be locked up. No one should believe a word from these people. Fool me once....

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Just when I thought I couldn't trust government and the dozens of 3 letter agencies any less. My trust was always in the single digit percentile but is in the negative range at this point and I don't see it *ever* rising above zero for the rest of my life.

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I believe this marriage of corporations and government bureaucracy is called fascism.

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The Bayh–Dole Act authorizes the Department of Commerce to create standard patent rights clauses to be included in federal funding agreements with nonprofits, including universities, and small businesses. I'm pretty sure the NIH is not a nonprofit or a university or a small business. I got a feeling that Fauci might be full of it again.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

I recall that Bayh-Dole was sold as a way to keep the government and academia from losing scientists to industry. Perhaps some who worked on the legislation actually believed that. Who knows. Government scientists are entitled by law to patent rights and royalties, but it has turned into a big grift. Bayh-Dole must be repealed, and the revolving door between government and Pharma (and everything else) has to be stopped.

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Patty Murray calls off Rand Paul as the US public digests a new huge conflict few knew. Way to stand up for the people Patty.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 18, 2022

There's a fascinating story out there of what happened (I think it was in 2012-2013?) when the Bayh-Dole Act was either going to be repealed or scaled back, and holy hell broke out from government employees and pharmaceutical lobbyists. There were claims that the royalties were needed to retain qualified employees, otherwise they'd drift off to work for the companies they "regulate". But it's used to facilitate "pay to play". Fauci shared just one of his lesser paying royalties. But I'm betting he's missing the fat ones, and Rand Paul is asking for an unredacted version. If there's no requirement to report, then it's high time it gets put in by Congress, given the recipients are working as members of the government who are supposed to be transparent with their financial and conflict of interest statements.

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Love Rand Paul. Kentucky should be very proud!

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What I found most interesting was who co-sponsored that bill. All those tender encomia for Dole, that fine traditional patriotic Republican, huh?

I remember the day I discovered that one of my fine Democratic Congresswomen was a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist before she decided to devote herself to the people.

You support a party, you support this, one way or another.

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The players in our public institutions have regarded us, the public, the People, in the same way a wolf pack regards a flock of sheep. They want the flock to survive only to assuage their rapacity—perennially.

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Don't you just love the rambling by Fauci to kill off the time for the question! He's the master! He'd probably make more money as a coach to the elites on his techniques which he's been so incredibly successful with over all these years.

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Every regulator in on this needs to be disbanded. The only way to build trust at this point is to burn down the current system

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I'm 75 years old and I have been reading history since I was 10. In spite of all that plus 8 years in the military, somehow I never imagined the level of cynical corruption that we have in our government. I only started to understand on 4 Nov 2020 and now I see it everywhere I look. I also understand the desperate need for censorship of the internet. I really thought America was different.

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And the rest of us suffer inflation and recession and mandates and antivax rhetoric. AND the annual corporate Code of Conduct BS!!!! Every frikin’ year.

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founding

Fraudulent. Ommissons. Intentionally. Altered

Fixed it: FOIA

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1980, NIH gets secret royalties

1986, Vaccine Manufacturer Liability

Since then, explosion of autism

Sure it is all a coincidence

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