The relocation follows HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on a May 27 podcast that prominent medical journals are “corrupt.”

“We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they’re all corrupt,” he stated. He implicated the journals jointly of being a “vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda.” He went on to state that “unless these journals change dramatically,” the federal government would “stop NIH scientists from publishing there” and develop “in-house” journals rather.

Kennedy’s criticism mainly originates from his belief that contemporary medication and mainstream science become part of an international conspiracy to create pharmaceutical earnings. Kennedy is a germ-theory denier who thinks individuals can keep their health not by depending on evidence-based medication, such as vaccines, however by tidy living and consuming– a loose principle called “terrain theory.”

Access to leading clinical and medical journals is important for federal researchers to maintain to date with their fields and advertise high-impact outcomes. One NIH staff member contributed to Nature news that it “suppresses our scientific freedom, to pursue information where it is present.”