Last week, the staff of the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institute of Health, received internal recommendations on the direction of manuscripts, presentations or other communications for care when they considered “conflicting, loud or sensitive” topics. Among the 23 problems with the hot button, according to the internal records, the propublica: vaccines, fluorine, peanuts, autism.
Although not uncommon for the Cancer Institute to outline a couple of priorities of the administration, the volume and scale of the list unprecedented and very unusual, six employees said about the state of anonymity as they were not authorized to comment publicly. According to the records, all materials should be considered by the Institute “Registration” and may be considered by officials in the NIH or its umbrella agency, the Ministry of Health and Human Services.
Employees and experts are worried that the directive will delay or stop the publication of research. “This is the highest microration,” said Dr. Georges K. Benjamin, executive director of the US Public Health Association.
The list touches on the personal priorities of HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy -Jr. Anti-Vokin Activist who has repeatedly moved Medical conspiracy theories and false claims. He has advanced this idea that Growth of autism rate related to vaccines, the statement that was unleashed hundreds of scientific research. Has it too suggested that aluminum in vaccines is responsible for childhood allergies (his son Reportedly allergic to peanuts). And he has claimed that fluorid water – What are the centers for the control and prevention of the disease called “One of the 10 greatest achievements in the health care of the 20th century” is “industrial waste”.
In the confirmation of the hearings in January, Kennedy said he did not “anti-vaccine”, And as a secretary, he will not scare people off measles or polio, but he Dodged questions About the connection between autism and vaccines.
Another term on the “Molygon Cancer” list refers to program launch President Barack Obama in 2016. It was Biden Administration Priority“
The list is “an unusual combination of words related to the activity with which this administration is fighting – as property, but also the words they allegedly do in order to do something like ultra -processed nutrition,” said Treis Woodruf, director of reproductive health and environment.
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The leadership states that employees “should not share the content that describes the usual science behavior if it does not receive serious media attention, is not controversial and not sensitive and does not affect the administration’s priority.”
The long -standing senior employee of the institute said the directive was distributed by the Institute’s communications team, and the content was not discussed at the level of the leadership. It is unclear in what accurate position the directive arose. NCI, NIH and HHS did not answer the questions of the PROPULICA. (List’s existence was first discovered in social media reports on Friday.)
Health and research experts said propublica that they feared the chilling effect of the new leadership. Not only can this lead to a longer and complicated design process, but also lead to researchers to censor your work because of the fear or respect for the administration’s priorities.
“This is a real intervention in the scientific process,” said Linda Birnbaum, a former director of the National Institute for Environmental Protection, which served as a federal scientist for four decades. The list she said, “Looks like an older brother.”
During the first two months of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his administration has Sliced funding For scientific -research institutions and For the termination of the NIH grant grant process process.
Kennedy suggested this Hundreds of NIH employees should be fired and say that the institute should disrupt infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and Translate your attention to chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
Obesity is on the new NCI list, as well as infectious diseases, including Covid-19, bird flu and measles.
“Focus on bird flu and caused,” Woodruf writes, because “not to be transparent with the public about infectious diseases, will not stop them and make them leave and exacerbate them.”
