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Fauci has promoted [[vaccination]] as an approach to disease, and has been criticized for favoring approaches advantageous to [[Big Pharma]]. Fauci is a patent holder who receives royalties on the sale and distribution of vaccines.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/profit-motive-hidden-from-patients/</ref>  Fauci said in a [[White House]] press briefing "not particularly concerned” about the safety risk on human guinea pigs of a potential coronavirus vaccine by Moderna, despite the fact that it uses untested technology.<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/dr-anthony-fauci-isnt-particularly-concerned-about-safety-of-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine.html</ref>  

Fauci has promoted [[vaccination]] as an approach to disease, and has been criticized for favoring approaches advantageous to [[Big Pharma]]. Fauci is a patent holder who receives royalties on the sale and distribution of vaccines.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/profit-motive-hidden-from-patients/</ref>  Fauci said in a [[White House]] press briefing "not particularly concerned” about the safety risk on human guinea pigs of a potential coronavirus vaccine by Moderna, despite the fact that it uses untested technology.<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/dr-anthony-fauci-isnt-particularly-concerned-about-safety-of-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine.html</ref>  

According to the ''[[Associated Press]]'', patients who took part in clinical trials at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) had no idea that scientists at the institutes received $8.9 million in royalty payments and might benefit financially for the use of their discoveries by pharmaceutical companies and device maker.  The information was not made public until the press agency obtained the information after filing a request under the [[Freedom of Information Act]].  The ''AP''reported that 916 present and former NIH researchers received annual royalty payments averaging $9700 but could receive as much as $150 000.  At the same time, NIH researchers spent millions of taxpayers' dollars studying the treatments that they had developed that were licensed to drug companies.  Patients said they might not have participated and undergone risks of trial treatment if they knew of scientists' had a financial interes.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545012/</ref>

According to the ''[[Associated Press]]'', patients who took part in clinical trials at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) had no idea that scientists at the institutes received $8.9 million in royalty payments and might benefit financially for the use of their discoveries by pharmaceutical companies and device maker.  The information was not made public until the press agency obtained the information after filing a request under the [[Freedom of Information Act]].  The ''AP''reported that 916 present and former NIH researchers received annual royalty payments averaging $9700 but could receive as much as $150 000.  At the same time, NIH researchers spent millions of taxpayers' dollars studying the treatments that they had developed that were licensed to drug companies.  Patients said they might not have participated and undergone risks of trial treatment if they knew of scientists' had a financial interest.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545012/</ref>

The NIH has been criticized before for not disclosing [[conflict of interest|conflicts of interest]].<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?journal=BMJ&volume=329&publication_year=2004&pages=10&</ref>

The NIH has been criticized before for not disclosing [[conflict of interest|conflicts of interest]].<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?journal=BMJ&volume=329&publication_year=2004&pages=10&</ref>