{"id":15379,"date":"2025-03-25T23:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-confirms-bhattacharya-to-lead-n-i-h\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:54:47","slug":"senate-confirms-bhattacharya-to-lead-n-i-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-confirms-bhattacharya-to-lead-n-i-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Bhattacharya to Lead N.I.H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, installing a contrarian who has pledged to reform scientific funding practices as the leader of the world\u2019s premier medical research agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Bhattacharya\u2019s confirmation \u2014 by a party-line vote of 53 to 47 \u2014 comes as the N.I.H., with a $48 billion budget, has been battered by recent cuts to staffing and orders to pause or cancel vast research funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Bhattacharya, a health economist and professor of medicine at Stanford, largely dodged questions about those cuts at a confirmation hearing in early March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He burst into the public spotlight in 2020, when he was among the writers of an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/19\/health\/coronavirus-great-barrington.html\" title=\"\">anti-lockdown treatise<\/a>, the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for protecting older and more vulnerable people from Covid while letting the virus spread among younger, healthier people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Questioned by lawmakers this month about the safety of vaccines, Dr. Bhattacharya said that he supported children\u2019s inoculation against diseases like measles, but also that scientists should conduct more research on autism and vaccines, a position at odds with extensive evidence that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/23\/health\/what-causes-autism.html\" title=\"\">shows no link<\/a> between the two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert F. 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