Impacts of the 2024 change in US government on ME/CFS and Long Covid

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'Not a real paper': Scientists say MAHA report cites nonexistent sources



'Not a real paper': Scientists say MAHA report cites nonexistent sources
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It looks like they've updated the report: https://www.whitehouse.gov/maha/

Here's an older version from New York Times (PDF)

Examples of references to non-existent papers:

420. Farber, H. J., Wang, G., Guerra, J., & Tsao, K. (2017). Overprescribing of Oral Corticosteroids for Children With Asthma. Pediatrics, 139 (Supplement 1), S58 – S59​

522. Findling, R. L., et al. (2009). Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychotropic medications for youth: A growing concern. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 19 (5), 487-492​
 
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1) Boston Globe: '‘Unrecognizable and highly toxic’: NIH staffers speak out ahead of Senate hearing on budget cuts’

'More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts and delays to research grants’

2) AP News: 'NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump’s deep cuts in public health research'

“I want people to know how bad things are at NIH,” Norton told The Associated Press

3) Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling'

'More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health’

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Link to paper: 'The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence'

Our Concerns

This Administration has forced NIH, under your watch, to:

1) Politicize research by halting high-quality, peer reviewed grants and contracts. Academic freedom should not be applied selectively based on political ideology. To achieve political aims, NIH has targeted multiple universities with indiscriminate grant terminations, payment freezes for ongoing research, and blanket holds on awards regardless of the quality, progress, or impact of the science. Based on political preferences and without input from NIH scientific staff or Congress, NIH is censoring critical research and programs addressing:

- COVID-19, long COVID, and immunization. We still have much to learn about the health and social consequences of COVID-19 and our response. Such research is needed to reduce the risk of future pandemics, optimize pandemic response policies, and address the well-documented and debilitating consequences of long COVID.
 
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