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Update. Three past editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (#NEJM) answer the attack on their journal from #RFKJr.
statnews.com/2025/06/30/rfk-jr
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"Kennedy claimed that one of us (Angell) said, 'We are no longer a science journal, we are a vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda.' In fact, what Angell said in a 2009 article was that 'it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published,' due to researchers’ financial ties with pharmaceutical companies."

The editors also point out that the three journals named by Kennedy happen to have published editorials criticizing the #Trump admin assault of science.

STAT · RFK Jr. says medical journals are ‘corrupt.’ As former NEJM editors, we know he’s wrongRFK Jr.’s plan to circumvent established medical journals smacks more of retaliation than reform, write three former NEJM editors.
#DefendResearch#Medicine#Pharma
petersuber

We could applaud #TaylorAndFrancis for pausing submissions at a journal that seems to be publishing a lot of fraudulent papers. Or we could ask why it waited until now.
science.org/content/article/jo
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"Out of a sample of nearly 900 papers _Bioengineered_ published from 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 through 2023, one-quarter showed signs of image manipulation or duplication." (Emphasis added.)

#Misconduct#PaperMills#Publishers
petersuber

"Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted."
theatlantic.com/science/archiv
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"For years, the National Hurricane Center has been improving the accuracy of its forecasts, and one short year ago, the United States was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But the Trump administration has been cutting the forecasting staff and budgets. And now these satellite data will be missing too. The U.S. is rapidly losing state-of-the-art hurricane forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months…What’s easy to see coming now are the possible consequences: at best, a needless evacuation. But just as easily: a rushed evacuation, a surprise landfall, a flattened house."

The Atlantic · Hurricane Science Was Great While It LastedBy Zoë Schlanger
#Censorship#Climate#DefendResearch
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petersuber

Update. Kudos to Andrea Sella for returning his 2014 Faraday Prize to the #RoyalSociety because the society refuses to expel or discipline Fellow Elon #Musk.
chemistryworld.com/opinion/why

From Sella: "Musk has amplified wild conspiracy theories, repeated racist and eugenic ideas, and spread calls for harming of one of his fellow Royal Society members, Anthony Fauci. The Royal Society stayed silent, declining to take disciplinary action against Musk even after resignations and petitions. Acting for the US administration, this past spring Musk embarked on a rampage…gutting science-based agencies, shutting down scientific databases, shredding public health programmes."

Also see the (#paywalled) coverage at the Financial Times.
ft.com/content/877853df-1687-4

Chemistry WorldWhy I returned the Faraday prize to the Royal SocietyAndrea Sella explains how inaction over Elon Musk's membership motivated him to act
petersuber

"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-na
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"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."

STAT · Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you toThe NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.
#DefendResearch#Medicine#OpenData
petersuber

"Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminate."
economist.com/science-and-tech
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"Actions with the stated goal of cutting costs and stamping out diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI) initiatives are taking a toll on scientific endeavour. And such actions are broadening. On May 15th it emerged that the administration had cancelled grants made to #Harvard University for research on everything from Arctic geochemistry to quantum physics…American science has long seen itself as the world’s best; today it faces its gravest moment ever."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

The Economist · Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminateBy The Economist
petersuber

"NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions."
science.org/content/article/ex
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"The National Science Foundation (#NSF), already battered by White House directives and staff reductions, is plunging into deeper turmoil…Staff were told [yesterday] that the agency’s 37 divisions —across all eight NSF directorates— are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced…The consolidation appears to be driven in part by President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the agency’s $9 billion budget by 55%...NSF watchers fear that a smaller, restructured agency could be more vulnerable to pressure from the White House to fund research that suits its ideological bent."

#DefendResearch#Funding#Trump
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petersuber

Update. "As Trump’s Cuts Loom Large, Colleges Are Under Pressure to Punish Anti-Israel Speech."
chronicle.com/article/as-trump
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Kate Hidalgo Bellows gets this right. #Trump treats criticism of #Israel as #antisemitism and pressures colleges and universities to do the same.

"The #Trump administration has promised to pull funding from colleges that don’t punish people for criticizing Israel, on the basis that it is antisemitic."

But of course we have the same right to criticize Israel that we have to criticize any country. There's nothing intrinsically antisemitic about it.

Don't take my word for it. Ask the majority of Israelis who join this criticism.
voice7news.tv/public/world/new

#Academia #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

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petersuber

Update. "#NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
science.org/content/article/ni
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"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [#Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

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