NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's Fight Against Predatory Journals

Showing 5 Jay Bhattacharya videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya announced a concrete policy change requiring that research funded by the National Institutes of Health be made freely available to the public without journal paywalls, directly addressing what he described as taxpayers effectively paying twice, once to fund research and again through subscription fees, to access findings their own tax dollars produced. Bhattacharya framed the July 2025 policy shift as exactly the kind of unglamorous but concrete reform the administration prioritizes, even though it wouldn't generate major headlines on its own. Jordan Peterson addressed a related but distinct question at the Oxford Union about whether pursuing political engagement remains a worthwhile use of one's time given how corrupted institutions have become, arguing that abstaining from politics simply cedes power to less scrupulous people rather than preserving one's own moral standing. Ben Shapiro delivered a pointed tribute to Charlie Kirk in a separate speech that specifically condemned Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson for spreading unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about his death, arguing public figures owe their audiences evidence-based reasoning rather than loyalty-driven speculation. None of this material connects these separate threads to Bhattacharya's own work directly.