Overview

• Kennedy threatened to bar NIH researchers from publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and other top journals, calling them “corrupt.”
• He accused major medical journals of accepting fees and publishing studies shaped by pharmaceutical companies to promote corporate interests.
• He plans to create in-house HHS journals that would leverage NIH funding as proof of legitimacy to become the preeminent outlets.
• The administration’s Make America Healthy Again report charges that pharmaceutical firms distort scientific literature through corporate capture.
• He ordered the CDC to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women.