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美国卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪于2026年9月1日在华盛顿特区美国卫生与公众服务部举办的儿童屏幕时间危害活动上发言。路透社/埃文·武奇/档案照片 购买授权，打开新标签页
华盛顿，9月16日（路透社）—— 一群科学家于周三针对美国国立卫生研究院提起集体诉讼，指控该机构违宪筛查研究资助，以压制特朗普政府在多样性、性别认同和气候变化等议题上不认可的观点。
该诉讼于美国加利福尼亚州北区联邦地区法院提起，将国立卫生研究院主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚、卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪以及DOGE列为被告。美国公民自由联盟、公共利益科学中心及其他组织为此次诉讼提供支持。
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原告方表示，作为全球最大的生物医学研究公共资助方，美国国立卫生研究院使用包含“性别”“拉丁裔”和“气候变化”在内的235个关键词列表，将资助申请标记为需终止、拒绝或强制重新谈判。诉状称，拒绝删除标记关键词的研究人员将面临失去资助的风险。
美国国立卫生研究院和卫生与公众服务部未立即回应置评请求。
此次诉讼是对研究资助削减举措的最新挑战，拜登政府称此举必要，旨在确保政府仅资助严谨科学研究，并扭转多年来错误的优先事项。
诉讼称，该筛查适用于已通过科学同行评审的资助申请，这代表额外一层意识形态审查，背离了国立卫生研究院长期以来的惯例以及国会禁止政治化的授权。
“科学家不应为获得联邦资助而修改自己的研究内容，”斯坦福大学外科医生、临床副教授阿尔加万·萨莱斯在一份声明中说道。她表示，自己关于生物医学研究领域性骚扰的资助申请因“与多元化、公平性和包容性相关”被终止。
诉状指控此举违反第一修正案，并违反了管辖资助终止的相关法规。它请求法院废除相关政策，并恢复已被终止的资助。
2025年6月，一家联邦法院裁定美国国立卫生研究院与多元化、公平性和包容性相关的资助终止行为非法，但2025年8月，最高法院允许该机构继续削减7.83亿美元此类资助。
一家联邦上诉法院于2026年5月裁定，此类资助终止行为可能违反第一修正案。拜登政府已请求最高法院审查该裁决。
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Scientists challenge US NIH grant screening as unconstitutional
2026-09-16T22:49:09.189Z / Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – A group of scientists filed a class-action lawsuit on Wednesday against the U.S. National Institutes of Health, alleging the agency is unconstitutionally screening research grants to suppress viewpoints the Trump administration disfavors on topics like diversity, gender identity and climate change.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and DOGE as defendants. It is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Science in the Public Interest and other groups.
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The plaintiffs say NIH, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, uses a list of 235 keywords, including “gender,” “Latinx” and “climate change” to flag grants for termination, denial or forced renegotiation. Researchers who refuse to scrub flagged terms risk losing funding, the complaint says.
The NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The suit is the latest challenge to the research funding cuts, which the administration says are necessary to ensure the government funds only solid science and to reverse years of misguided priorities.
The suit says that the screening applies to grants that have already cleared scientific peer review, representing an added layer of ideological review that departs from NIH’s longstanding practice and congressional mandates barring politicization.
“Scientists should not have to scrub their research to receive federal funding,” Arghavan Salles, a surgeon and clinical associate professor at Stanford University, said in a statement. She said her grant on sexual harassment in biomedical research was terminated as “DEI-related,” referring to diversity, equity and inclusion.
The complaint alleges First Amendment violations and breaches of statutes governing grant terminations. It asks the court to vacate the policies and restore terminated grants.
In June 2025, a federal court ruled NIH’s DEI-related grant terminations were unlawful, but in August 2025 the Supreme Court allowed the agency to proceed with cutting $783 million in such grants.
A federal appeals court ruled in May 2026 that such terminations likely violated the First Amendment. The administration has asked the Supreme Court to review that decision.
Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Jonathan Spicer
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