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EXCLUSIVE: The White House Office of Science and Technology directed federal agencies to implement “Gold Standard Science" and de-politicize science and restore public trust.
The Trump administration’s attack on scientific institutions has been characteristically audacious: Eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded healthcare interventio ...
The in-house journals would have legitimacy, he said, because of an NIH stamp of approval and would become the pre-eminent scientific journals in the world.
All three of those journals have published original, peer-reviewed research for decades and contribute to the distribution of scientific information across the planet.
“Unless these journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing there and we are going to create our own journals, in-house,” Kennedy Jr. said.
The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.