NIH

10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2025 by Andrew Huberman · across every show →

Everything said about NIH, oldest first

Jun 14, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huberman: Most NIH-funded research is completed before grant approval
“Much of the work that's funded by NIH. Here's the dirty secret is already completed because they tend to fund things that are very certain to be completed. And so people put forward grants based on work and preliminary data showing I can do this. And it's alre…”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:20:05 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
Jun 14, 2025 negative
Insight
Academic science should replace PI labs with mission-focused labs
“I think that the independent investigator model of science in this country, where it's the Huberman lab, or it's the whatever lab named after the PI, I think that's a flawed model. This is gonna really upset some people. There should be labs named after a part…”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:38:37 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
Jun 14, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Congress is considering a 40 percent budget cut to the NIH
“There is an upcoming vote in Congress in September, I believe, and it's on the table to cut the overall budget for research for NIH by 40%, four zero.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:03:49 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
Jun 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Most Nobel Prizes in medicine stem from NIH-funded work
“The majority of Nobel prizes has in physiology and medicine and chemistry and related fields have come from work that was either initially seeded by, or certainly supported by the NIH.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 14, 2025 ▶ 1:06:12 Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Huberman: Majority of Nobel Prizes in medicine originated from NIH funding
“The majority of Nobel Prizes has, in physiology and medicine, ah, and chemistry and related fields have come from work that was Either initially seeded by or certainly supported by the NIH.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 2:44 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
Jun 26, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Huberman: NIH funds most US basic research and clinical trials
“Most of the basic research and clinical trials that are run in the United States are funded by the NIH.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 2:17 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
Jun 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Huberman: Administration potentially restructuring NIH from 20+ institutes to eight
“The current administration seems to be taking a more like, they're gonna revise the way that NIH is structured potentially, 20 plus institutes down to eight, so all of it looks like downsizing.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 3:43 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Huberman: Funded research grants often fail the critical laboratory deletion test
“I sat on study section for a long time, and I can tell you there were clusters of grants that didn't solve what we call, what good labs call, the deletion test. If this laboratory didn't exist, would it change the direction of science? You have to pass the del…”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 21:10 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
Jun 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Huberman: Congress is considering a 40% cut to NIH research budget
“There is an upcoming vote in Congress in September, I believe, and it's on the table to cut the overall budget for research for NIH by 40%, four to zero.”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 0:41 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
Jun 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huberman: NIH grants often fund already-completed research rather than bold science
“Much of the work that's funded by NIH Here's the dirty secret is already completed because they tend to fund things that are very certain to be completed. And so people put forward grants based on work and preliminary data showing I can do this and it's alread…”
Andrew Huberman Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 12:24 Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
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