RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals [View all]
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.
The three publications he named — which were established in the 1800s, and publish original, peer-reviewed research — play a central role in disseminating medical research worldwide. The Lancet and JAMA each say they receive more than 30 million annual visits to their sites, while the New England Journal of Medicine says it is read in print and online by more than 1 million people each week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/
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