An #editorial in the highly respected #BMJ explains that Trump et al are #destroying #science and must be stopped: “Trump’s first 100 days have destroyed the foundations of 100 years’ scientific progress and pre-eminence.” https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r862
The BMJ · We must resist as Trump takes aim at scienceLast year Robert F Kennedy Jr, now the US health secretary, ordered medical journals to “start publishing real science and stop retracting the real science.” Now, after delivering 100 days of global disruption, Donald Trump’s administration has aimed its wrecking ball at medical and scientific journals (doi:10.1136/bmj.r812).1 In the minds of Trump and his chosen health leaders there is “good science” and “bad science,” good scientists and bad scientists.
Inevitably, Trump’s team believe themselves to be the good guys: defenders of free speech and open debate, standing defiantly against the tyrannical rule of medical journals and their fiendishly “woke” editors. The truth indeed is stranger than fiction; dystopia is reality.
Medical journals, by tradition and practice, are some of the most conservative publications in the world—US journals particularly so. Journals are in the debate business, and a …
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