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Jamie Metzl, a self-described progressive Democrat and former World Health Organization expert committee member, discussed the culture at the NIH, saying that there is an inherent conflict of interest in the agency between granting and reviewing grants. He specifically pointed to the relationship between the NIH and Peter Daszak, who was working on projects supported by the NIH, USAID, and the Defense Department.
There's a bit of an inherent conflict of interest at the NIH between being the government agency that gives grants and the government agency that reviews the grants that it has given. So certainly the...
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Jamie Metzl, a self-described progressive Democrat and former World Health Organization expert committee member, discussed the culture at the NIH, saying that there is an inherent conflict of interest in the agency between granting and reviewing grants. He specifically pointed to the relationship between the NIH and Peter Daszak, who was working on projects supported by the NIH, USAID, and the Defense Department.
There's a bit of an inherent conflict of interest at the NIH between being the government agency that gives grants and the government agency that reviews the grants that it has given. So certainly there was an element of clientitis that we saw in the Morins email exchanges with Peter Daszak, where Peter Daszak was their guy and he was working on projects that were supported not just by the NIH, but also by USAID and the Defense Department. So these bureaucracies have some interest in protecting grantees because they have an interest in protecting themselves.