Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he’s planning to ban government scientists from publishing in established medical journals, which are some of the most important ways doctors spread knowledge and advance patient care.
Kennedy made the comments on the Ultimate Human podcast to host Gary Brecka, a fellow vaccine skeptic and anti-fluoride conspiracy theorist.
“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, listing off some of the biggest medical journals and claiming they’re controlled by the pharmaceutical industry.
“Unless these journals change dramatically, we are going to stop [National Institutes of Health] scientists from publishing there, and we’re going to create our own journals in house,” he continued, claiming that those will “become the preeminent journals.”
The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA were all established in the 1800s and say they’re viewed by tens of millions of people annually.
Kennedy also claimed that the “medical cartel” has “transformed” the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services into “sock puppets” for the pharmaceutical industry.
His remarks come a week after the White House released a Kennedy-spearheaded report saying prescribed pharmaceuticals could be to blame for chronic disease in children.
Kennedy’s podcast appearance also comes a day after he announced the CDC would no longer advise regular COVID-19 boosters for children and pregnant women.