As reported today by Racket News, new FOIA disclosures from UC Irvine show school faculty and administrators struggling with its own famed commitment to academic freedom.
Before I retired from the systemwide UC Office of the President in 2022, I maintained the database that kept track of UC's research funding. When four students were purged for refusing to take the mRNA jabs, I assisted their attorney in drafting requests for documents relating to the very question you are asking.
The answer is that the campuses that happen to have medical centers got hundreds of millions of dollars from these companies and from their close allies in both the government sector (i.e. Fauci's branch of the NIH) and from private non-profits (e.g. the B&M Gates Foundation). UC San Diego alone had something like ~135 medical researchers who had gotten research funding from the pharma companies (you can get a current listing of clinical trials funded by each company using the search engine at https://clinicaltrials.ucbraid.org/ ).
A single Fauci loyalist at UCLA, Judith Currier, got to administer ~$350 million in NIH COVID research funding. With the UCLA administration getting about 1/3rd of that total as indirect research expenses, it is perhaps not coincidental that all the UCLA Deans lobbied for a tougher vax policy.
This repulsed me when it was happening and now I am even more strongly infuriated as it grows and metastasizes world wide. I fear for our future. I am grateful and depend on warriors like Matt T, Aaron K, Scott Atlas, Michael Shellenberger and others who fight. Sadly, they fight alone against the colossal machine. We must speak out. We must vote and hope it counts. Our future depends on it.
Leftists were for free speech until they became the establishment they once despised.
I wonder how much money UC received from pharmaceutical companies for “research”. It seems to make a difference in acceptable speech.
Before I retired from the systemwide UC Office of the President in 2022, I maintained the database that kept track of UC's research funding. When four students were purged for refusing to take the mRNA jabs, I assisted their attorney in drafting requests for documents relating to the very question you are asking.
The answer is that the campuses that happen to have medical centers got hundreds of millions of dollars from these companies and from their close allies in both the government sector (i.e. Fauci's branch of the NIH) and from private non-profits (e.g. the B&M Gates Foundation). UC San Diego alone had something like ~135 medical researchers who had gotten research funding from the pharma companies (you can get a current listing of clinical trials funded by each company using the search engine at https://clinicaltrials.ucbraid.org/ ).
A single Fauci loyalist at UCLA, Judith Currier, got to administer ~$350 million in NIH COVID research funding. With the UCLA administration getting about 1/3rd of that total as indirect research expenses, it is perhaps not coincidental that all the UCLA Deans lobbied for a tougher vax policy.
This repulsed me when it was happening and now I am even more strongly infuriated as it grows and metastasizes world wide. I fear for our future. I am grateful and depend on warriors like Matt T, Aaron K, Scott Atlas, Michael Shellenberger and others who fight. Sadly, they fight alone against the colossal machine. We must speak out. We must vote and hope it counts. Our future depends on it.