The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals “corrupt.”…

Kennedy’s criticism largely stems from his belief that modern medicine and mainstream science are part of a global conspiracy to generate pharmaceutical profits. Kennedy is a germ-theory denier who believes people can maintain their health not by relying on evidence-based medicine, such as vaccines, but by clean living and eating—a loose concept called “terrain theory.”

Access to top scientific and medical journals is essential for federal scientists to keep up to date with their fields and publicize high-impact results. One NIH employee added to Nature news that it “suppresses our scientific freedom, to pursue information where it is present.”

    • oyfrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, it’s generally between Science and Nature in terms of greatest publication prestige. Most scientists work their butts off to get their works published in either of those, only to get their work desk-rejected and ultimately published in “less prestigious”, field-specific journals.

      That’s not to say the Science and Nature are the end all be all of scientific journals; there are many journals specific to each field that is also prestigious.

    • brendansimms@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      These nazi idiots are destroying US science, there is no upside. Reasonable people COULD have setup a controlled transition to some sort of public peer review and publishing system, but instead they are going to not do any of that and now RFK can continue to just post their garbage ChatGPT written fake reports on hhs sites directly.