National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign on Jan. 17, she told staff this week, ending her tenure as the head of the $48 billion biomedical research agency after only a year.
“I am so proud of what NIH has been able to achieve in such a short time under my leadership,” Bertagnolli said in her announcement, touting a list of initiatives launched that she hopes the next administration will continue.
Yeah, but on the other hand does it really make a difference when they’re going to be fired in a few days anyway? It’s not like between today and Monday the NIH is going to be able to do some sort of convincing of RFK to not believe in and promote a bunch of insane medical quackery bullshit.
Very true, it may not make any difference. Personally, I am so anti-Nazi and anti-fascist that I think that opposing them in every way, at every single opportunity is necessary. But also, I have the “luxury” that it’s not my job, so I risk nothing. Until I do…
I totally understand that sentiment, but I would like to point out that by doing this now, she gets a news headline and an article highlighting the work she and the NIH have done, whereas otherwise it would get lost in the sea of firings and department shut downs that are about to happen.
Because people aren’t even going to be thinking about the NIH when they decide to close the Department of Education.
Yeah well, there were millions and millions who weren’t anti fascist enough to just get off their ass and vote one day.
I appreciate your determination but it’s wasted on us all sadly.