NIH Censors Research Access
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The NIH is censoring research it deems controversial and blocking scientists from accessing an important database. Let’s pray.
From City Journal. A policy of deliberate ignorance has corrupted top scientific institutions in the West. It’s been an open secret for years that prestigious journals will often reject submissions that offend prevailing political orthodoxies—especially if they involve controversial aspects of human biology and behavior—no matter how scientifically sound the work might be. …
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American geneticists now face an even more drastic form of censorship: exclusion from access to the data necessary to conduct analyses, let alone publish results. Case in point: the National Institutes of Health now withholds access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may wander into forbidden territory. The source at issue, the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), is an exceptional tool, combining genome scans of several million individuals with extensive data about health, education, occupation, and income. …
My colleagues at other universities and I have run into problems involving applications to study the relationships among intelligence, education, and health outcomes. Sometimes, NIH denies access to some of the attributes that I have just mentioned, on the grounds that studying their genetic basis is “stigmatizing.” …
What is NIH’s justification? Studies of intelligence do not pose any greater threat to the dignity of their participants than research based on non-genetic factors. With the customary safeguards in place, research activities such as genetically predicting an individual’s academic performance need be no more “stigmatizing” than predicting academic performance based on an individual’s family structure during childhood. …
NIH has historically enjoyed high levels of public confidence in its professionalism and integrity. That trust is now deteriorating. The decline began with evidence that its personnel may have been complicit in blocking investigations of the possibility that Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory. The restrictions on scholars’ access to the dbGaP don’t have nearly the same public visibility as the Covid story, but they strike equally at the heart of NIH’s integrity.
The federal government was under no obligation to assemble the magnificent database that is the dbGaP. Now that it has done so at taxpayer expense, however, it does have an obligation to provide access to that database evenhandedly …
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God you are all knowing, all seeing. Did would you please expose what the NIH is wanting to hide. The control of scientific data could be something evil they are working on, and they do not want people to see, except the people who are paid to control hidden information. Why does the Government control NIH ? NIH is not suppose to be controlled by the Government to issue orders. God we declare that the Gov. Has no legal claim to censorship. God you see what is happening here, another control strategy that can be done with taxpayers money, I feel they are using the system for illegal purposes and scientific tools to better their selves . This is another crime act toward America. They are good at twisting information and blocking the truth they have Been doing it for years, only now it is more sinister. God we take authority over their agendas and mandates and lies to destroy America which is continued daily. God expose the complicit in blocking investigations of the possibility that “Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory “And there are connections to NIH and Covid and the purpose of Covid.!!! I pray that all who is involved in this Censoring of scientific data will be dismissed and lose their license for research; in Jesus name I ask to help protect America and it’s people. 🧎♀️🧎♀️✝️
Heavenly Father, our government institutions once meant for good have become so corrupt. I pray for revival in America and the eyes of our citizens to be open to the destruction the evil one is causing. I pray you would guide us to elect God fearing leaders who will work to change them and make them accountable for their actions.
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Lord God, we acknowledge You as the Source of All Truth.
In the authority of Jesus Name
we call for honest, transparent recording and sharing of scientific data by the NIH and other federal agencies. We call for wider exposure of scientific censorship and an end to the deceptive suppression of facts to fit a proscribed narrative.
Father, we ask You to raise up and empower voices in the medical/scientific community to speak truth and restore accountability to righteous standards.
Lord Jesus speak truth, your truth, into the scientific community, that CAN NOT be silenced. Amen.
One has to wonder what NIH is doing in secret with this database. More government secrecy, more nefarious plans to harm the US people and tighten their grip on power and control.
There is nothing hidden that will not be made known. Lord, protect us from every evil plan formed against us, and bring it out into the light. Amen.