Posted on 05/28/2025 1:26:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house,” HHS Secretary Kennedy said.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is threatening to prevent National Institutes of Health scientists from publishing in some major medical journals because they are "corrupt."
Kennedy said Tuesday on the “Ultimate Human” podcast that three of the most influential medical journals in the world – the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Lancet – are “corrupt” becaus they publish studies funded and approved by pharmaceutical companies, Politico reported.
“Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them, and we’re going to create our own journals in-house,” Kennedy said.
The HHS secretary's comments come after the Department of Justice sent letters weeks earlier to both NEJM and JAMA to investigate them for partisanship.
In a potentially conflicting statement with Kennedy, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said earlier this month, "Academic freedom means I can send my paper out even if my bosses disagree with me."
Kennedy also said the heads of the major journals – including The Lancet Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton and NEJM's former editor-in-chief, Marcia Angell – no longer consider their publications reputable.
Angell said in 2009 that it “is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published” due to financial ties with pharmaceutical companies, and Horton wrote in 2015 regarding concerns about the replicability of scientific research.
Kennedy argues Horton “really disgraced himself” during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Horton was at the center of a controversy over The Lancet retracting a study that linked hydroxychloroquine to increased COVID-19 deaths. He said that the journal would change its peer review process.
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https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc
That is amazing. Go Bobby.
I enjoyed some Steak and Shake tallow fries yesterday. Delicious. Fries and a double cheese steak burger was $6.14. much more premium than McDs, less so than Culvers, but for the price you can’t beat it.
One of the “heroes” of Kennedy’s crusade against the medical journals, Marcia Angell, is a crusader for “death with dignity”/assisted suicide:
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/web/assisted-suicide/
Phooey to her! Her participation in Kennedy’s crusade suggests that it is rotten to the core!
So if somebody you don't like advocates for something, that makes that something bad?
Interesting.
No, if an alleged “authority’ advocates for something odious, like assisted suicide, I call them out for it!
I will augment and repeat my question, since you didn't answer it:
I will augment and repeat my question, since you didn’t answer it:
If someone you find “odious” advocates for chocolate ice cream, does that make chocolate ice cream bad? NO.
If someone you find “odious” advocates for RFK, Jr., does that make RFK, Jr. bad? Maybe, if he shares her odious opinions about assisted suicide, or if he aids or abets them! And rather than being bad, RFK Jr may merely be deluded into supporting the very poorly named “Marcia Angell”!
So you have no idea whether that is true or not, but you choose to smear him with it anyway. Check.
Here’s where “death with dignity” stands in Massachusetts now:
https://deathwithdignity.org/states/massachusetts/
The Mass Medical Society rescinded its longstanding opposition, and is now “neutral”—i.e., cowardly! Way back, I worked with the Society to oppose the measure!
The Orthodox Church supports Life—from conception to natural death!
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