Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said [May 27] that he may bar government scientists from publishing in the worldโs leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of โin-houseโ publications by his agency โ the latest in the Trump administrationโs attacks on scientific institutions.
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Kennedy also accused several of the agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services โ including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services โ of being โsock puppetsโ for the pharmaceutical industry.
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Adam Gaffney, … an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, wrote … that โbanning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in leading medical journals and requiring them to publish only in journals that carry the RFK Jr. seal of approval would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research.โ
