Reply #7: It's another misleading hype. Everytime resesarchers want more pay

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they threaten to leave thier Fed institution. There is so much to inform about how the NIH system works it would take a really good and savvy journalist team who is familiar with the NIH to try to break it down so that folks on the outside would understand. Sometime ago, a RW hardliner suggested that NIH should block-grant the money the Feds give it. Divide among all the medical research institutuions by some kind of formula. The public would save billions and research might progress more rapidly. After having worked at the NIH for more than 40 years...that idea has more merit than one would think. The waste, abuse, scientific misconduct, nepotism, and hidden immigration systems that flourish there are mind boggling. Give NIH money and more and more buildings and parking lots go up. Give it some new mandates like bio-terrorism research etc. and the waste and abuse goes through the roof. All of this has been reported to Congress and others over the years but nothing changes...there continues to be one scandal after the other and Congress just helps to cover it up because....afterall, who can be against medical research? Everybody wants to live forever. But if you just examine the record...especially in cancer research from just 1960 to now, it would blow your mind about the money spent and the lack of similar progress. Remember, if a disease is "cured" there is no more need for all that money. Well, I have said enough...go search it out for yourselves, I've been tainted over the years and no longer can be objective. I have witnessed too much!