Hundreds of scientists of National Institute of Health (NIH) released a call for action, they dubbed Bethesda declaration On Monday, to push behind the cutback and changes in the biomedical research agency.

The organizers say that more than 340 employees in the huge campus of NIH in Bethesda, MD, sent documents to the NIH Director, outside Washington, DC. Jai Bhattacharya Appeal to the agency for safety. They say that the Trump administration is doing politics ahead of educational freedom.

Before taking over in NIH, Bhattacharya was known for helping to write controversial Great Barrington DeclarationWhich questioned the lockdown and other public health measures in the Covid-19 epidemic.

In the Bethesda announcement, scientists say the Trump administration has “forced NIH, under” [Bhattacharya’s] “View” to “study”, “Stegtize” about health inequalities, and cut the research in medical issues related to gender and interactions in Kovid -19, long covid, health effects of climate change, and other important areas.

“For employees of the National Institute of Health (NIH), we dissatisfied for the policies of administration that weaken the NIH mission, ruin public resources, and damage the health of Americans and people worldwide,” said in the announcement. “The nature of life-death of our work demands that the change is thoughtful and veto. We are forced to speak when our leadership prioritizes political pace on human security and loyal leadership of public resources.”

The document is notable because most NIH employees are publicly criticized by publicly criticizing the new administration that they publicly criticize their jobs or fear of losing their financing – a position declaration “culture of fear and repression”. The document was signed by 92 employees who revealed his name.

One of the leading organizers of the announcement in the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a statement by Jena Norton states, “There is a risk because of standing in this way, but I am more concerned about the risks of speaking.” “If we do not speak, we allow continuous losses to continue the US and the world and to continue public health. If we do not speak, we allow our government to curb free speech, a fundamental American value.”

In a written response, Bhattacharya stated that Bethesda’s announcement “NIH has committed some fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions made in recent months, including continuous support of NIH for international cooperation. Nevertheless, there is a respectable dissatisfaction producer in science. We all want NIH to be successful.”

More than 40 scientists outside NIH, including 21 Nobel Prize winners, also signed initially Separate letter Supporting the Bethesda announcement. In addition, more than 500 letters were signed on Monday morning after the document was made public.

The letter states, “We appreciate the NIH employees who have come forward with the ‘Bethesda Declaration’, to share the concerns in the spirit of academic freedom for the good of all,” said in the letter.

“We urge NIH and the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to return to NIH in our mission to work with NIH employees and to leave NIH as a tool for using as a tool to achieve unrelated political goals from that mission.”

Both documents were released a day before Bhattacharya Set for testimony Before Congress about NIH’s budget. Trump administration is NIH proposal to kill the budget About 40% to $ 27.5 billion to $ 44.5 billion.