appointing great thieves
appointing great thieves the advanced rot of late stage bureaucratic empire EL GATO MALO the american voter is a weird and fickle beast. show them bankster bailouts and they rage. but show them a grifter garden of NIH royalties, and it’s hard to even elicit notice. i will just never understand hoomans… THIS STORY has been making the rounds. i actually think the sourcing is a bit lacking and the manner in which is presented is somewhat misleading and so the numbers are suspect and do not really jibe, but it does raise an important issue: the NIH is a thieves forest where the public money they take from your taxes is used to fund research, but when the research proves fruitful the royalty payments therefrom often go not to the agency but to the individual staffers who were involved. not only are they making out like bandits, but they have no obligation to report these royalties or their amounts publicly or even to congress. there is zero oversight and this makes the insider trading ru