INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Backlash to the idea was quick, with the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus immediately calling it
writing, "We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration." They titled the letter "The
Bethesda Declaration," named after the NIH's location in Maryland."Standing up in this way is a risk, but I am much more worried about the
risks of not speaking up," Jenna Norton, a program officer at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
dissent, Stand Up For Science, published a second letter on Monday in support of the Bethesda Declaration
The support letter is signed by over a dozen Nobel laureates and former NIH directors Jeremy Berg and Joshua Gordon.Tomorrow, Bhattacharya
will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposal for the NIH, which proposes a cut
of about 40 percent to the agency's $48 billion budget.
