How much do you suppose the government spends on subscriptions to academic journals every year?
Just their subscriptions to Springer Nature alone costs the tax payers $20 million per year, and that's not counting all the subscriptions to medical journals and other academic nonsense out there.
And the Trump Administration has had enough.
Andrew Nixon, the top spokesperson for the NIH's parent agency, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said: ‘All contracts with Springer Nature are terminated or no longer active. Precious taxpayer dollars should be [sic] not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.'
RFK Jr. has said that the NIH will be eschewing publications in medical journals and starting their own.
‘We're probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they're all corrupt,' Kennedy said
On his plans for the department to create its own journals, Kennedy said they would ‘become the preeminent journals, because if you get [NIH] funding, it is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist.'
RFK Jr also blasted the researchers and publishers alike for being Big Pharma's "Sock Puppets".
And it's about time!
So many of these journals that are peer-reviewed aren't even publishing real research anymore.
Here are just a few examples from recent years:
Clearly, it's hard to trust any of the studies getting published by the major players these days.
Science has become more like a game of Who's Line Is It Anyway than a respectable field advancing the human race.
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