Why does your New England map appear different than the map in the Nature Health paper, particularly as VT is concerned?

It was so confusing that one member abstained because the second vote made zero sense after the first!!

They had very little idea what they voted for, given the majority voted the opposite way in the second vote. No sense. Tomorrow will be worse.

He seems to have been overly optimistic about the group. Because having to abstain because you are in the midst of nonsense is not a good sign.

This hearing was shocking. Up and down.

Likely too many frail adults as well.

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.

My full statement.

I have a good friend who works there. She’s on vacation at the moment but might be interested

And also what does a 30% NIH budget cut look like logistically? If bread and butter R01s are 5yr…20% of grants awarded/yr…no awards in FY26?

Also, how does he intend to cut 30% from NIH? Given most bread and butter R01s are 5yr…20%/yr. Does that mean no new awards in FY2026??

Also ask him why he thinks political appointees will be less biased than peer reviewers? And add in a question about whether a grant “termination” (Harvard) should be considered a “pause” as suggested by JB. Termination doesn’t equal freeze.

I think the best thing would be to show that he is unqualified. Get an expert to go thru his (and CDF’s) cited sources because many are junk or simply misunderstood.

This is what happens when you need to depend on AI to write a health/science document because you are unqualified.