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![amanpour Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::69181624.png) Christiane Amanpour [@amanpour](/creator/twitter/amanpour) on x 3.1M followers
Created: 2025-07-25 17:12:48 UTC

After XX years at the National Institutes of Health, including as director, Dr Francis Collins retired this year. “It became untenable,” he says. “Restrictions were placed on the research we were trying to do… Staff were being fired with no justification… We were also muzzled.”

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