RFK JR threatens the ban on federal scientists who publish in the best journals | Robert F Kennedy Jr
Robert F Kennedy Jr threatened to prohibit government scientists from publishing in the main medical journals in the world, which he described as “corrupt”, and to create alternative publications managed by the state.
“We are likely to stop publishing in Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Jama and these other journals because they are all corrupt,” said the United States of Health on the Ultimate Human Podcast. He accused publications of being controlled by pharmaceutical companies.
Instead, Kennedy described the plans for launching journals managed by the government which would become “pre -eminent journals” because the National Institutes of Health Funding outdo the researchers “as a good legitimate scientist”.
The three publications that Kennedy has targeted are among the most influential medical journals in the world, established in the 19th century and now at the center of the dissemination of medical research evaluated by peers worldwide. Lancet and Jama each report more than 30 million annual visits to the website, while the New England Journal of Medicine claims more than a million weekly readers.
Kennedy has also accused the agencies he is currently overseeing – notably NIH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid SERVICES – like “sock puppets” for the pharmaceutical industry.
The second Trump administration has taken an ax in scientific research, with funding from the NIH reduced by more than $ 3 billion since the previous year. Kennedy also served around 20,000 staff from the Government Ministry of Health.
Adam Gaffney, public health researcher at the Harvard Medical School, said The Washington Post: “Prohibit researchers funded by NIH from publishing in head medical journals and obliges them to publish only in journals that transport the approval seal RFK JR would delegate the research funded by taxpayers.”
The comments of the Secretary of Health followed the release of a White House report last week The fact that medical consensus has challenged on vaccines and the suggested pharmaceutical influence prevented an appropriate study of the causes of chronic diseases in children.
Kennedy justified his position by citing the ten-year concerns of newspaper publishers themselves concerning pharmaceutical influence, notably the former chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Marcia Angell Warning 2009 That it is simply no longer possible to believe a large part of the published clinical research “due to financial links with pharmaceutical companies.
Funding reductions and staff changes have prompted some American scientists to consider moving abroad, countries like France, Germany, Spain and China actively recruiting American researchers.
