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RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions (arstechnica.com)
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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."

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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't Nature one of the most reputable science magazines..

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year 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.

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    • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    How is any of this real life?

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Where does swimming in sewage fit into his "clean living" plan?

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Translation: the health department has been taken over.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bad for the department, good for science. We need a better way to publish papers.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    MAGATs are junk humans.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Down with Elsevier! Everyone publish to SciHub! Am I right?

    Right?

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