Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
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My guest is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Professor Emeritus of Health Policy at Stanford University. We discuss which scientific questions ought to be the priority for NIH, how to incentivize bold, innovative science especially from younger labs, how to solve the replication crisis and restore trust and transparency in science and public health, including acknowledging prior failures by the NIH. We discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and the data and sociological factors that motivated lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates. Dr. Bhattacharya shares his views on how to resolve the vaccine–autism debate and how best to find the causes and cures for autism and chronic diseases. The topics we cover impact everyone: male, female, young and old and, given that NIH is the premier research and public health organization in the world, extend to Americans and non-Americans alike.
Articles
- NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas (Journal of Human Capital)
- Why most published research findings are false (PLOS Medicine)
- COVID-19 antibody seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California (International Journal of Epidemiology)
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine (The New England Journal of Medicine)
- Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (The New England Journal of Medicine)
- Final Analysis of Efficacy and Safety of Single-Dose Ad26.COV2.S (The New England Journal of Medicine)
- A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism (The New England Journal of Medicine)
- Prenatal exposure to ultrasound waves impacts neuronal migration in mice (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Other Resources
- Great Barrington Declaration
- Bayh-Dole Act of 1980
- Institutional Development Award - IDeA
- Google Scholar
- Cochrane
- How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test (Tablet Magazine)
- Lockdown is the world’s biggest psychological experiment – and we will pay the price (World Economic Forum)
- Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)
- How to End Lockdowns Next Month (The Wall Street Journal)
- Operation Warp Speed (U.S. Government Accountability Office)
Huberman Lab Episodes Mentioned
People Mentioned
- James Watson: American molecular biologist, known for structure of DNA, Nobel laureate
- Francis Crick: English molecular biologist, known for structure of DNA, Nobel laureate
- Rosalind Franklin: British chemist, x-ray crystallographer, known for structure of DNA
- Torsten Wiesel: Swedish neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate
- David Hubel: American-Canadian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate
- Vannevar Bush: American engineer, inventor, science administrator
- Monica Bertagnolli: former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Ben Barres: neurobiologist, Stanford University
- Linda Buck: Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Nobel laureate
- Richard Axel: Professor of Pathology & Biochemistry, Columbia University, Nobel laureate
- Karl Popper: British philosopher of natural and social science
- John Hennessy: former Stanford University President
- Sunetra Gupta: Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, University of Oxford
- Martin Kulldorff: epidemiologist, biostatistician, founding Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom
- Scott Atlas: Senior Fellow in Scientific Philosophy & Public Policy, Hoover Institution of Stanford University
- Anthony Fauci: former Chief Medical Advisor to the US President
- Trofim Lysenko: Soviet agriculturalist and biologist, known for Lysenkoism
- Edward Ross: Professor of Economics, Stanford University
- H. Bruce Franklin: Professor of English, Stanford University
- Michael Levitt: Professor of Cancer Research, Stanford University
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Marty Makary: United States Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration
About this Guest
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, is Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Professor Emeritus of Health Policy at Stanford University.
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