HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is considering a ban on government scientists publishing their work in top-tier medical journals, which he says are abed with pharmaceutical companies.
As NIH and NCI funding is negotiated in Congress, Paul W. Thurman felt compelled to crunch some numbers. He compared the U.S.’s cumulative funding for NCI to the funding slated for ICE—the latter of which vastly outweighs the former—and asked whether the funding priorities of the federal government are properly representing the nation’s mortality.
