Health and human services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR. Threatened with leading medical magazines during the Podcast’s speech on Tuesday, warning that government scientists may be excluded from publishing in “corrupt” publications.
During the performance in Podcast “Ultimate Human” Kennedy aimed at the New England Journal of Medicine (Nejm), Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama) and Lancet, accusing them of research issued with the interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
RFK JR: “We will probably stop publishing in Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Jama and other magazines, because they are all corrupt.” pic.twitter.com/oivwby9gxh
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“While these magazines do not change dramatically, we will stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and create their own magazines on their own,” Kennedy said, referring to the National Institutes of Health.
Kennedy’s comments after the release Report supported by the White House He conducted, warning that excessive pharmaceutical order, excessive recording of drugs and institutional fear could contribute to the increase in the indicator of chronic disease in children. The report claims that the impact of the industry discouraged open scientific research into basic health problems.
Kennedy further claimed that even the editors of the publication agreed with him.
He accused the editor -in -chief of Nejm Marcia Angell of Kennedy’s words: “We are no longer a scientific journal, we are a ship of pharmaceutical propaganda.” “In 2009, Angell actually he said: “You just can’t believe in most of the published clinical trials.”
The former presidential candidate also undertook Liberty, paraphrasing a quote from 2015 from the editor Lancet, Richard Horton. “” We are no longer scientific magazines, it’s about promoting pharmaceutical products and we are doing this, “said Kennedy Horton.
“A significant part of scientific literature, perhaps half, can simply be untrue,” Horton he saidRecognizing that published studies are “affected by small sample sample studies, small results, invalid exploration analyzes and glaring conflicts of interest.”
The magazines cited by Kennedy have not yet presented the answers to his comments.
Meanwhile, the director of Nih, Jay Bhattachary and FDA Commissioner, Marta Makary, launched their own Alternative magazine, The Journal of Academy of Public Health.