Science magazine may have misrepresented statements Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), made in a recent interview, according to a leaked recording and transcript published today by The Disinformation Chronicle.
During Bhattacharya’s “contentious” and “confusing” 20-minute interview last week with Science reporter Jocelyn Kaiser, Kaiser “pressed Bhattacharya several times to account for canceled grants as well as news accounts of turmoil inside the agency,” The Disinformation Chronicle reported.
The questions led Bhattacharya to ask Kaiser, on several occasions, “to clarify and explain exactly what she was asking” about the NIH’s new subaward grant policy.
“Subawards typically involve a contract between the U.S. investigator’s institution and the entity in a foreign country that is conducting the research,” Science reported. Subawards “support everything from investigator-initiated research projects to large clinical trial networks that test new medicines.”
