Source: Washington Post
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of ‘in-house’ publications by his agency — the latest in the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific institutions. ‘We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA [published by the American Medical Association] and those other journals, because they’re all corrupt,’ Kennedy said during an appearance on the ‘Ultimate Human’ podcast. He also described the journals as being under the control of pharmaceutical companies. … On his plans for the agency to create its own journals, Kennedy said they are ‘going to become the preeminent journals, because if you get [National Institutes of Health] funding, it is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist.'” [editor’s note: Yeah, because government approval is the mark of sound science. Some supposed libertarians supported, and even continue to support, this authoritarian joker – TLK] (05/28/25)