Emails reveal how a controversial hepatitis B trial won a $1.6M no‑bid grant
Rolling Stone reports that emails show Health and Human Services officials fast-tracked a $1.6 million, no-bid grant to Danish researchers for a birth-dose hepatitis B trial in Guinea‑Bissau, timed with RFK Jr.’s policy shifts. The funding was pushed as a “funding priority” by Kennedy appointees, drawing ethical concerns over withholding a lifesaving vaccine and raising questions about political influence on research funding.