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Der US-Gesundheitsminister engagiert sich für ein staatlich finanziertes Open Access-System –

Die US-Regierung will künftig offenbar noch stärker in die Wissenschaftsfreiheit eingreifen als bisher. Am Dienstag verkündete Gesundheitsminister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in einem Podcast, dass er Wissenschaftlern, die öffentliche Forschungsgelder erhalten, künftig verbieten will, in den führenden medizinischen Fachjournalen der Welt zu publizieren. Stattdessen will Kennedy eigene Fachzeitschriften herausgeben, in denen die Ergebnisse staatlich geförderter Forschung publiziert werden müssen. Wir werden wahrscheinlich das Publizieren im Lancet, im New England Journal of Medicine, in Jama und diesen anderen Zeitschriften stoppen, weil die alle korrupt sind, sagte er wörtlich im Podcast The Ultimate Human, worüber auch die Washington Post berichtete. Kennedy behauptete, die Fachjournale würden von Pharmafirmen kontrolliert, ohne allerdings dafür Belege anzuführen.

–  setzt auf moderne Publikationstechnologien –

There are some questionable sources underpinning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial Make America Healthy Again commission report. Signs point to AI tomfoolery, and the use of ChatGPT specifically, which calls into question the veracity of the White House report meant to address reasons for the decline in US life expectancy.

An investigation by NOTUS found dozens of errors in the MAHA report, including broken links, wrong issue numbers, and missing or incorrect authors. Some studies were misstated to back up the report’s conclusions or, more damningly, didn’t exist at all. At least seven of the cited sources were entirely fictitious, according to NOTUS.

Another investigation by The Washington Post found that at least 37 of the 522 citations appeared multiple times throughout the report. Notably, the URLs of several references included oaicite, a marker that OpenAI applies to responses provided by artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT, which strongly suggests it was used in developing the report.

– und deckt im Alleingang gut verborgene Interessenskonflikte in einer Impfkommission auf, die er zum Anlass für konsequente Maßnahmen gegen das Impfunwesen nimmt:

But for all Kennedy’s talk, this week, he did exactly what a person would do if they were trying to undermine the scientific consensus on vaccination in the United States. He abruptly dismissed the entire expert committee that advises the CDC on its nationwide vaccine recommendations—and began to fill the roster with like-minded people ready to cast doubt on the benefits of vaccination.

Like Kennedy, few of these new appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice, or ACIP, have openly embraced the notion that they are anti-vaccine. But among them are individuals who have spoken out against COVID vaccines and policies, claimed vaccine injuries for their own children, and falsely linked COVID shots to deaths—or even baselessly accused those vaccines of causing a form of acquired immunity deficiency syndrome.

Robert F. Kennedy jr. erweist sich damit in jeder Hinsicht als würdiges Mitglied der US-Administration und als Konkurrent um das Erbe eines ehemaligen Kollegen.