Environmental health views, which are widely considered in the leading environmental health journal, have announced that they will stop accepting new publishing studies, as federal discounts left their future.
For more than 50 years, the magazine has received funding from the National Health Institutes to review studies on health effects of environmental toxins – from “chemicals forever” to air pollution – and publishing the research for free.
Joel Kaufman, the main editor of the magazine, said the editors made a decision to stop accepting studies due to “lack of confidence” in which critical expenses are renewed such as editing copies and editing programs after imminent expiration dates.
He refused to comment on the prospects for the future post.
“If you already lose the magazine, this is a great loss,” said Jonathan Levy. Head of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University. “It reduces people’s ability to get good information that can be used to make good decisions.”
Nejm editor described the letter as a “mysterious threat”. On Tuesday, the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology, said it had received such a letter.
Scientific magazines have always been a target for senior health officials of the Trump administration.
In a book published last year, Dr. Martin A. Macari, the new commissioner for food and drug management, Editing paintings of the accused magazine “Save the Gate” And publish only information that supports “collective thinking”.
in An interview with the “Dr. Hyman Show” last yearRobert F. said. Kennedy Junior, who is now the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, is that he intends to sue medical magazines under Federal Anti -Corruption Laws.
He said: “I will find a way to sue your prosecution unless you reach a plan now to show how you will start spreading real science.”
However, the advertisement related to EHP researchers, who indicated that the financing discounts appear to be inconsistent with the declared priorities of the Trump administration.
For example, Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly emphasized the importance of study The role of the environment in causing chronic diseases. The new administration also expressed its interest in transparency and access to scientific journals, a field where EHP was a trailblazer.
EHP was one of the first “open access” magazines, allowing anyone to read without subscription. Unlike many other magazines that access to the open, which often receives thousands of dollars to spread their business, the federal support for EHP means that scientists from smaller universities can spread without worrying about fees.
“There are multiple layers of paradox here,” said Dr. Levy.
EHP is not the only magazine that has been caught at the intersections of financing at the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.
The administration budget project, obtained by the New York Times, proposes to break two magazines published by the centers of control and prevention of diseases: emerging infectious diseases and preventing chronic diseases. Both are deployed for free to the authors and readers, and they are among the best magazines in their fields.
“There has been no final decision” regarding the next budget, “said Andrew Nixon, HHS spokesman.
Emerging infectious diseases, published monthly, provide advanced reports on the threats of infectious diseases from all over the world.
Jason Kindershuk, a virus at the University of Manitoba, who has published research on Marburg and MPOX viruses in the magazine, said.
He said the news is “very frustrated.”
