RFK Jr. Health Agency Axes Nature, Calls Science Journals “Junk”, 3 Agencies Freeze Out
RFK Jr.’s Health Department, citing “junk science,” canceled all Nature and Springer subscriptions at NASA, DOE, and USDA, dumping high-profile science for taxpayer savings. “All contracts...terminated or no longer active,” said HHS’s Andrew Nixon, echoing RFK Jr.’s claim that leading journals are “corrupt.” Trending searches—“Why did NIH lose Nature?” and “RFK Jr. medical journal ban”—now rival “best kale smoothie.”
After calling top journals “pharmaceutical propaganda vessels,” RFK Jr. threatened to block NIH scientists from publishing in The Lancet, JAMA, and NEJM. Google hot topics: “Can scientists work without journals?” “What is terrain theory?” Picture: federal biologists trading Nature logins for homegrown kombucha secrets. “It suppresses our scientific freedom,” one NIH employee warned, as government labs improvise.
The Department of Energy, USDA, and NASA now fund zero Springer Nature subscriptions, replacing high-impact research with, presumably, a robust in-house zine called ‘The Unpublished Germ’—available only in the break room.
