Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling prestigious medical journals “corrupt,” Tuesday advised that authorities scientists could shortly be foreclosed from publishing their work in these journals.
On the Final Human Podcast with Gary Brecka, Kennedy mentioned, “We’re in all probability 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.” The journals, he mentioned, publish research which can be funded by the pharmaceutical trade. As an alternative to them, he continued, the NIH will set up medical journals for its numerous institutes and facilities — until present journals change “radically.”
The assumption that journals have negatively manipulated the scientific file isn’t a brand new place for Kennedy, however the newest feedback sign that he could use his place because the nation’s high well being official to affect analysis that journals publish.
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