Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the ...

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” ...

Over 300 researchers from the National Institutes of Health have published a letter rebuking its director and the Trump ...

It’s highly unusual for so many agency officials to denounce their own leadership and the White House in such a public way.

In an open letter, researchers and staff at the National Institutes of Health raise concerns over recent policy changes.

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They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.

The declaration says that under the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health has been forced to politicize and stigmatize important research.

More than 90 staffers at the National Institutes of Health signed their names to a letter of dissent to Director Jay Bhattacharya in a rare sign of open resistance by career government employees.