What would an editor do one wonders, with this threat? "He (Kennedy) said he would steer the nearly $48 billion annual budget of the National Institutes of Health away from drug development and toward studies that would explain high rates of chronic disease. He also said he would seek to prosecute medical journals like The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine under the federal anti-corruption statute. “I’m going to litigate against you under the racketeering laws, under the general tort laws,” he said during the interview. “I’m going to find a way to sue you unless you come up with a plan right now to show how you’re going to start publishing real science and stop retracting the real science and publishing the fake pharmaceutical science by these phony industry mercenaries, scientists.” NYT article (see 'gift' link below).
I have in the past been a vocal critic of 'peer review' that is anonymous. But even the current shaky system of peer review is far superior than what seems to be coming. It does enable a harsh criticism of papers that are usually made 'better', and 'more skeptical' and 'cautious' in over-extravagant claims by authors. A good many are rejected. But the actual criteria of "real science" - seem to be under threat. The penetration of pharmacy and private capitalist monetary interests into medicine is an entirely differing matter. Of course that needs further drastic curtailing. But somehow I do not think this is in the offing, nor what is being proposed here. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/us/politics/rfk-jr-hhs-health-goals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU4.r9Hv.7Siuhg7BNN09&smid=url-share -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33620): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33620 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109608343/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
