Yep. Its happening right now with Long hauler research for Covid where 19/20 of the top papers explaining the condition were not NIH funded. The NIH is so far b

Yep. Its happening right now with Long hauler research for Covid where 19/20 of the top papers explaining the condition were not NIH funded. The NIH is so far behind in terms of research compared to organisations that are publicly or privately funded that its almost laughable and its controlling 1.1 billion USD and getting nothing done at all. Its definitely not new, there was such a Cabal for ME/CFS research for nearly 60 years that considered the disease depression and to treat it with exercise and CBT, they successfully sucked up all the funding (still do) and have published numerous big studies including completely fabricated data and they still keep getting all the funding. MS was similarly led down the wrong path for 2 decades with a similar cabal and limited funding with most research rejected and it only got exposed when the US Army noted that only those that caught EBV (mono,glandular fever) went on to develop the condition. Remains to be seen if the research money is no redirected due to this research and the enormous media coverage. It is by and large the normal when it comes to disease funding, cabals with real promising research even drugs that showed promise in small trials or diagnostics that appear to work well getting rejected for funding for nonsense reasons. Its not a uniquely US/NIH issue either its definitely present in the UK's NHS as well.