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
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…”
Jun 14, 2025 negative
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…”
Jun 14, 2025 negative
Jun 14, 2025 positive
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Jun 26, 2025
Jun 26, 2025 neutral
Jun 26, 2025 positive
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…”
Jun 26, 2025 negative
Jun 26, 2025 negative
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…”