Service a gigantic corporation and receive a bribe payment called "royalties."

During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma.

Now we know just how close they were.

New data from the National Institutes of Health reveal the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists.

Almost all that cash -- $690 million -- went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.

Information about this vast private royalty complex is tightly held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). My organization, OpenTheBooks.com, was forced to sue to uncover the royalties paid from September 2009 to October 2021, which amounted to $325 million over 56,000 transactions.

We had to sue a second time, with Judicial Watch as our counsel, to pry open this new release.

Payments skyrocketed during the pandemic era: Those years saw more than double the amount of cash flow to NIH from the private sector, compared to the prior 12 combined. All told, it's $1.036 billion.

It's unclear if any of the COVID vaccine royalties from Pfizer and Moderna, the latter of which settled with NIH by agreeing to pay $400 million, is even included in these new numbers. NIH isn't saying.

Of course they're not saying. Why should the nobles respond to the impertinent questions of the peasant scum?

The writer points out the recent scandal involving a Fauci henchmen deliberately misspelling words in order to avoid FOIA requests for communications with those keywords. David Morens also apparently delivered physical letters by courier to avoid having an searchable paper trail.

Fauci won't be able to misspell words to evade scrutiny or have folks physically courier messages -- just two of the FOIA-avoiding actions described by Dr. David Morens, a key Fauci deputy.

The NIH continues hiding the $710 million in payments from lawmakers and taxpayers with a right to know who's getting paid off by Big Pharma:

Characteristically, NIH is still redacting pieces of the data that would help us more easily connect therapeutics with their government-paid inventors. For example, they refuse to show us the amount of royalties paid to each individual scientist. So we still can't entirely follow the money.

I covered this earlier, but it bears underlining: Transcripts of Anthony "I Am Science" Fauci's closed-door testimony were released on Friday.

Science Itself admitted that it was making up all of its "scientific" Magic Spells against covid. At the time, of course, he claimed these Amulets and Talismans were all so completely supported by The Science (TM) that anyone questioning them was complicit in murder and must be denounced and censored.

So much to be outraged about, so little time. You would have thought that we're still close enough on the historical timeline to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially here in the United States, that the news from Friday would have resulted in atomic-level public reaction.

Due to the other outrage, the banana republic court verdict in lower Manhattan that was micromanaged and orchestrated by Joe Biden donor and trial judge Juan Merchan, the news about the pandemic culpability of Dr. Anthony Fauci barely registered a blip.

The top medical advisor in the White House in 2019-2023 at the height of the COVID outbreak, Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified in January in a closed-door session of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The transcript of that hearing was released last Friday.

In short, the response to the pandemic - the masks, the social distancing, the separation of families, the 6-foot spacing signs graffitied all across the country, the plexiglass walls erected to wall people off from each other, the closed schools, all of it was bovine excrement. All of it. There wasn't a lick of science behind any of the policy. It was Anthony Fauci and his team making it up as they went along, and Fauci relishing the power trip in which he found himself.

In the National Review's write-up of the release of the transcript, here is Dr. Fauci just nonchalantly admitting that masking, in this case, child masking that caused so much damage to an entire generation of child development, wasn't based in any scientific data. Fauci said this.

During the second day of his testimony, Fauci made a similar concession about the lack of scientific evidence to support masking children to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

"Do you recall reviewing any studies or data supporting masking for children?" a staffer asked Fauci.

"You know, I might have, Mitch, but I don't recall specifically that I did. I might have," Fauci replied.

Of the "six foot distancing" rule, Fauci said, "It [the six-foot rule] just sort of appeared, that six feet is going to be the distance."

He then claimed this was an "empiric decision that wasn't based on science."

But that's a lie, too. "Empiric" -- a shortened form of "empirical" -- means "based on observation."

Based on experience and observation rather than on systematic logic. Experienced physicians often use empirical reasoning to make diagnoses, based on having seen many cases over the years. Less-experienced physicians are more likely to use diagnostic guides and manuals.

There was never any observation supporting this "rule." Nor any "experience" with it -- it had not been tried before.

As Fauci says, "it just sort of appeared." Meaning, he just chose it on a whim, and then said I Am Science as he compelled people to follow his "science."

Former NIH director Francis Collins also admitted in closed-door testimony that he was aware of "no evidence" supporting this rule.