“Every single NIH employee had to write…a loyalty oath to DEI principles. And they were sometimes evaluated on the basis of their sufficient devotion to the cause…The ticket to getting extra relatively easy funds was to promise to do DEI research,” says NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. In this wide-ranging interview, he reveals what he found when he took over the NIH, and how he’s redirecting the focus of the NIH’s almost 50 billion dollars annual budget. “We're no longer just focused on havin