The transfer comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on a Could 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are “corrupt.”
“We’re most likely going to cease publishing within the Lancet, New England Journal of Drugs, JAMA, and people different journals as a result of they’re all corrupt,” he stated. He accused the journals collectively of being a “vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda.” He went on to say that “except these journals change dramatically,” the federal authorities would “cease NIH scientists from publishing there” and create “in-house” journals as a substitute.
Kennedy’s criticism largely stems from his perception that trendy medication and mainstream science are a part of a world conspiracy to generate pharmaceutical income. Kennedy is a germ-theory denier who believes individuals can keep their well being not by counting on evidence-based medication, akin to vaccines, however by clear residing and consuming—a free idea referred to as “terrain principle.”
Entry to prime scientific and medical journals is important for federal scientists to maintain updated with their fields and publicize high-impact outcomes. One NIH worker added to Nature information that it “suppresses our scientific freedom, to pursue data the place it’s current.”
