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Bhattacharya: NIH shifted from funding fresh ideas to older research projects
“Look, if you look at back in the 19 eighties and 19 nineties, the NIH was funding ideas that were like zero, one, two years old. The typical scientific project funded by the NIH in the 2000 teens, it was about 2002 thousand, early 2002 thousand teens was like …”
Bhattacharya: NIH is capping grant applications to block AI-generated submissions
“I'm just to put a new policy in place where I'm limiting the number of new public applications you can have, like to, we can have, you know, six a year, six a cycle or something. We have people writing 60 applications. And very clearly AI-generated. And then w…”
Bhattacharya: US life expectancy hasn't grown in 15 years
“The United States has seen no increase in life expectancy.”
Bhattacharya: Zostavax shingles vaccine reduces Alzheimer's cognitive decline risk by 20-30%
“A colleague of mine at Stanford did, has this like fantastic paper, he published, set of papers he published using an old shingles vaccine. Called Zostavax. He found that in excellent observational studies that it would, that if you had Zostavax, it reduces th…”
Bhattacharya: US average body weight decreased last year for the first time
“We had, we saw a reduction in average body weight in the, in this country the first time in, you know, decades last year.”
Bhattacharya: US has worse preterm birth outcomes than Europe
“Like, we have worse outcomes in the United States than Europe does.”
Bhattacharya: Nobel winners' scientific ideas age half as fast as average researchers'
“So I did a study a few years back where I looked at it turns out that the age of the ideas in your published work ages by every, by one year for every year of chronological age. So my ideas get one year older every year that I age. The very best scientists fig…”