{"id":1995618,"date":"2023-08-09T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-group-reveals-fauci-and-nih-scientists-personally-collecting-royalty-payments-from-taxpayer-funded-inventions\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:13:25","slug":"watchdog-group-reveals-fauci-and-nih-scientists-personally-collecting-royalty-payments-from-taxpayer-funded-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-group-reveals-fauci-and-nih-scientists-personally-collecting-royalty-payments-from-taxpayer-funded-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog group exposes Fauci and NIH scientists receiving royalties from taxpayer-funded inventions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatchdog-group-reveals-fauci-and-nih-scientists-personally-collecting-royalty-payments-from-taxpayer-funded-inventions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Newly Released Documents\u200d Reveal Controversial Royalty Payments to NIH Scientists<\/h2>\n<p>Startling revelations\u200d have emerged \u200cfrom recently unredacted documents, shedding light on third-party royalties paid to \u200dNational Institutes \u200cof Health (NIH) scientists, including the renowned Dr. Anthony Fauci,\u2064 both before and after the pandemic. These findings have ignited\u2062 a fresh wave of\u2064 questions surrounding Fauci&#8217;s statements made during\u200b congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 transparency watchdog, \u200bOpenTheBooks, has made public over 1,500 pages of records, exposing the fact\u200c that not only did \u2063NIH leadership receive\u2064 royalty payments, but thousands of individual scientists \u2063also benefited \u2063from companies licensing their inventions, which \u2064were developed using taxpayer funds.<\/p>\n<h3>Debate Rages: Trump, DeSantis, and 2024 GOP Hopefuls&#8217; Stance on the Justice Department<\/h3>\n<p>During their testimonies before Congress, NIH leadership, including\u200c Fauci, claimed that they were unable\u200c to disclose\u200c the identities of the companies \u2062making these third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-nih-officials-took-secret-payments-from-outside-firms\/\" title=\"Report: NIH officials took secret payments from outside firms\">-party royalty payments<\/a>. In response, \u200cOpenTheBooks, in collaboration with Judicial Watch, filed a lawsuit under \u200bthe Freedom of Information Act, demanding \u2063the release of these documents from the\u200d NIH.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog&#8217;s report, \u2062which covers the\u200d period between September 2009 and October 2020, reveals that several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchin-remains-undecided-but-west-virginia-senate-race-has-started-without-him\/\" title=\"Joe Manchin's indecision leaves West Virginia Senate race underway without him.\">royalty \u2063payments<\/a> were made by companies that had received federal contracts and grants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-group-reveals-fauci-and-nih-scientists-personally-collecting-royalty-payments-from-taxpayer-funded-inventions\/\" title=\"Watchdog group exposes Fauci and NIH scientists receiving royalties from taxpayer-funded inventions.\">potentially raising concerns<\/a> \u200dabout\u200b conflicts of interest. It is worth noting that \u200dthe\u200c NIH\u200b permits scientists to receive a maximum of $150,000 annually from\u200c royalties.<\/p>\n<p>During \u2063a Senate \u2063hearing in 2022, Senator Rand Paul\u2063 (R-KY) relentlessly questioned Fauci \u200dabout his NIH royalty payments, only to be\u2063 met with evasion and refusal to\u2062 answer. Fauci \u2062attempted to deflect\u2062 by claiming\u200c he did\u2063 not comprehend the senator&#8217;s inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed again about royalty payments in another Senate hearing, Fauci responded by \u2063stating that he did not possess factual knowledge regarding \u200bsuch payments. Furthermore,\u200d Fauci argued \u2062that individuals \u200dreceiving\u200c royalties were not obligated to disclose\u2063 them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As the\u2063 most \u200drecognized official \u2062at NIH,\u200d Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2063 was the face of the\u2062 third-party royalties controversy. But our\u2063 investigation was \u200cabout a lot more\u200b than any single scientist,&#8221; emphasized Adam Andrzejewski, the founder and CEO\u2063 of OpenTheBooks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was about allowing for \u2064scrutiny of these records for potential conflicts of interest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-of-retracted-study-on-harm-of-mask-wearing-by-children-says-removal-was-political\/\" title=\"Author of Retracted Study on Harm of Mask-Wearing by Children Says Removal Was \u2018Political\u2019\">public health implications<\/a>, and\u2062 even\u200d national \u200csecurity implications for all of us. Every American should understand the \u2062stakes in play\u2063 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-loosens-covid-19-restrictions-raising-restaurant-capacity-to-50-percent\/\" title=\"Chicago Loosens COVID-19 Restrictions, Raising Restaurant Capacity to 50 Percent\">public health guidance<\/a> is released by the federal government,&#8221; Andrzejewski added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrzejewski further revealed to Russell Brand\u200d in January that Fauci had a history of investing \u200btaxpayer dollars into his own inventions\u200d and subsequently profiting from the resulting royalties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2005, the Associated Press obtained \u200dan unredacted database, uncovering the fact that Fauci had dismantled all firewalls. He had received $45,000 in royalties\u2064 for an AIDS therapeutic that he himself had \u200binvented,&#8221; Andrzejewski disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The documents released on Wednesday disclose that Fauci received payments from three distinct \u200ccompanies: Santa Cruz Biotechnology, a medical research firm; Ancell Corporation,\u200d specializing in immunology; and Chiron Corporation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read\u2063 more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of its scientists received financial compensation from outside sources, including pharmaceutical companies, for their work. This disclosure adds to the scrutiny surrounding Dr. Fauci&#8217;s credibility and his potential conflicts of interest. The release of these unredacted documents highlights the need for further investigation into the influence of external funding on scientific research and decision-making within the NIH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1995619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}