The American Secretary of Social and Health Services, Robert Kennedy JR, threatened to prohibit government scientists from publishing in the main medical journals, proposing the creation of magazines administered by the Government.
“We are likely to stop the publications in Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Jama (Journal of the American Medical Association) and these other magazines because they are all corrupt,” he said in the Ultimate Human podcast.
“Unless these magazines change radically, we will prevent NIH scientists (federal institutes in charge of medical research, editor’s note) to publish in these magazines and create our own magazines,” he continued in the microphone of the influencer Gary Breck.
Mispassed by its anti -vaccinas positions and its promotion of certain ideas opposed to scientific consensus, Robert Kennedy JR has denounced for years the greatest influence of pharmaceutical giants in the American medical system and has already involved these scientific journals, among the most prestigious and influential.
Founded in the nineteenth century, Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and Jama play a central role in the field of medical research. The studies they publish are “evaluated by peers”, that is, to say carefully examined by experts specialized in interested subjects.
Several health agencies accused of being in the hands of pharmaceutical laboratories
But according to the minister, who significantly highlights Marcia Angell’s testimony, former senior manager of Nejm, these great titles would not be reliable because in the hands of the pharmaceutical laboratories. “It must pay $ 10,000 for the study to be published. Therefore, the pharmaceutical company invents a study that shows the result you want (…) and publishes it,” he said.
At the beginning of the 2000s, Marcia Angell had published a book on pharmaceutical giants in which he wrote in particular that “it was no longer possible to believe a large part of the published clinical research.”
Regarding the magazines that he intends to create, Robert Kennedy JR said that “they become the preeminent magazines, because if you get funds, this dedicates you as a good scientific legitimacy.”
Robert Kennedy JR also accuses several health agencies that he supervises to be in the hands of the pharmaceutical giants and has initiated a deep review of his ministry directed according to him to fight against a “bureaucratic proliferation” and to restore the confidence of the population in the authorities.
Source: BFM TV
