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Donald Trump’s NIH Pick Just Launched a Controversial Scientific Journal

Wired, Feb 6, 2025

By Emily Mullen and Matt Reynolds

A new open access ‘journal’ (Journal of the Academy of Public Health) was founded by recently confirmed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Director Marty Makary.

The article warns that the ‘journal’ may be used as a mouthpiece by the Trump Administration to tout pseudoscience. Indeed, one of the first articles describes a ‘Blueprint for NIH Reform.’ While it has some interesting ideas in it, there are also some really bad ones and it contains quite a bit of disinformation.

Angela Rasmussen, an American virologist and research scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, says she worries that the journal could be used to prop up and legitimize pseudoscientific and anti-public health views. “I don’t think this is going to give them any credit with real scientists. But the public may not know the difference between the Journal of the Academy of Public Health and the New England Journal of Medicine,” she says.

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