Lysenkoism
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From the fine folks at Politico (who, as a result of this piece, will likely be compelled to re-start the sanewashing by this time tomorrow):
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to stop government scientists from publishing their work in major medical journals on a podcast Tuesday as part of his escalating war on institutions he says are influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
Speaking on the “Ultimate Human” podcast, Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet, three of the most influential medical journals in the world, were “corrupt”...
I mean, honestly, if this was six months ago I would think that the good Mr. Kennedy is just trolling us.
...“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”...
Because such in-house 'journals' are nothing more than prop shops that are driven by the opposite of rigorously generated and analyzed data.
And, as we noted a few weeks ago, Mr. Kennedy's minions have already built one of those:
A new journal co-founded by President Donald Trump’s pick to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says it will “promote open and transparent scientific discourse” but is drawing controversy within mere days of its launch...
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...The journal, which has already published eight articles on topics including COVID-19 vaccine trials and mask mandates, eschews several aspects of traditional publishing. It lacks a subscription paywall, posts peer reviews alongside published articles, and pays reviewers for their work. But other researchers have criticized the journal’s exclusivity and lack of quality control. Only members of a newly formed body, the Academy of Public Health, can submit articles, and all submitted articles are published...
Honestly.
If this happens, it will be the final nail in the coffin of the American biomedical research enterprise, an enterprise that has driven truly innovative science, world-wide, for far longer than I have been in the business.
And, just to be clear, I have been in the business for a very long time.
OK?