Dr. Jay Goes to Washington: Reforming Science from the Inside at NIH | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Just four months ago, the best place to find my guest today would have been in the office he had occupied for more than two decades in an out-of-the-way corner of the Stanford campus, and when he came to the door he would have been wearing his favorite item of clothing, a Stanford hoodie. Today, That man is the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhadacharya on Uncommon Knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

I'm Peter Robinson. A native of India, Jayanta Bhadacharya. Did I get that close? I can't pronounce it myself either. Jayanta Bhadacharya moved to the United States with his family when he was a child.

After growing up in Southern California, Dr. Bhadacharya enrolled in Stanford University, where he earned his undergraduate degree, his master's degree, his MD, and his doctorate in economics, and then became a member of the Stanford faculty. During the COVID lockdown, Dr. Bhadacharya helped to write the Great Barrington Declaration, a document that opposed the lockdowns, calling instead for focused protection, that is, concentrating efforts on those most at risk while reopening schools and places of work. For taking this position, Dr.

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