Open the Books Report: The $325M Third-Party Royalty Complex at the National Institute of Health
OpentheBooks has released a disturbing report after newly obtained National Institute of Health (NIH) documents, forced through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal the disturbing extent of third-party royalties paid before, during, and after the pandemic to Big-Pharma, Chinese and Russian companies, and others.
The NIH documents reveal the names of companies that paid NIH scientists $325 million in third party royalties from 56,000 transactions between September 2009 and October 2020.
Under oath during Senate testimony, Anthony Fauci told Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that he didn’t know “as a fact” if he’d been paid royalties by drug and medical research firms while at NIH.
The report reveals that Fauci, and former NIH Director Francis Collins,
