(Fox News) Open The Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski exposed the “culture of secrecy” that allowed scientists at the National Institutes of Health — where Dr. Anthony Fauci worked for decades — to benefit from over $1 billion in royalties from grants.
It’s a system that is only possible because the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “is actually a revolving door,” Andrzejewski told comedian Russell Brand in a Jan. 15 interview.
“Every year, [the agency] dole[s] out about $32 billion worth of grants to about 54,000 health care entities across the United States. Think pharmaceutical companies, universities, research outfits, the entire public health complex. That buys you a lot of friends, that buys you a lot of allies.”
Andrzejewski discovered that the NIH “leadership and 2,400 of its scientists” have benefited from “$1.4 billion of these hidden, secret third-party royalties” over the past 12 years.
It was a tangled web of self-interest, Andrzejewski argued, that also points to Fauci and his wife, Dr. Christine Grady, who both work at the NIH.
“If U.S. public health was a game show,” Andrzejewski said, “I think we’d have to call it ‘Meet the Faucis.’”
Fauci is the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Grady is the chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center.
While both agencies are separate entities, they are also both overseen by the NIH.