{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Question That Left Trump’s NIH Chief Squirming","description":"Will Saletan gives his take on Trump’s new NIH director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, becoming a loyalist defender of the Trump administration’s most controversial and absurd health claims. Bhattacharya repeatedly blames Anthony Fauci for COVID-era school closures, declining vaccine confidence and other public-health failures, even when the record doesn’t support those claims. He also refuses to clearly say that vaccines do not cause autism and dodges questions about anti-vaccine misinformation and the CDC shooting. What happens to science when the people running America’s health agencies become more focused on defending Trump and RFK Jr. than following the evidence?","author_name":"Bulwark Takes","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5149464-bulwark-takes","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43757337/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}