Citing Cuts Nih, the best scientific journal stops accepting applications

The prospects of environmental health, commonly considered the most vital magazine of environmental health, announced that it would stop the acceptance of modern research for publication, because federal cuts remained uncertain.

For over 50 years, the magazine has been received by funds from the National Institutes of Health to review research on the health effects of environmental toxins – from “Forever Chemicals” to air pollution – and publish research free of charge.

The editors decided to stop the examination of research due to “lack of trust” that critical expenditure contracts such as copying and editorial software will be renovated after their upcoming expiration dates, said Joel Kaufman, the best editor of the magazine.

He refused to comment on future publications.

“If the journal actually gets lost, this is a huge loss,” said Jonathan Levy, Chairman of the Environmental Health Department at Boston University. “It reduces people’s ability to have good information that can be used to make good decisions.”

The editor Nejm described the letter as “vague threatening”. On Tuesday, the Obstetrics and Gynecology magazine, published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said he had received such a letter.

Scientific magazines have long been the target of the best health officials in Trump’s administration.

In the book published last year Dr. Martin A. Makara, modern Commissioner for Food and Drug Administration, accused of editorial magazines of “Keeping goals” and publishing only information supporting “group narrative”.

IN Interview with Podcast “Dr. Hyman Show” last yearRobert F. Kennedy Jr., who is currently the Secretary for Health and Human Services, said he was planning to chase medical magazines in accordance with federal anti -corruption provisions.

“I will find a way to sue you unless you come up with a plan to show how to start publishing real learning,” he said.

Despite this, the announcement regarding EHP surprised researchers who pointed out that the financing cuts seemed contrary to the designated priorities of the Trump administration.

For example, Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly emphasized the importance of studying the role of the environment in causing chronic diseases. The modern administration also expressed interest in transparency and public availability of scientific journals, an area in which EHP was pioneering.

EHP was one of the first “open available” magazines, enabling everyone to read without subscription. And unlike many other magazines from open access, which often receive thousands of dollars for publishing their work, federal EHP support meant that scientists from smaller universities could publish without worrying about a fee.

“There are many layers of irony here,” said Dr. Levy.

EHP is not the only magazine caught in the intersection of financing cuts in the Health and Social Welfare Department.

The draft budget for the Department, obtained by the Novel York Times, proposes Axing two magazines published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: emerging infectious diseases and prevention of chronic diseases. Both are published for free for authors and readers and belong to the best magazines in their fields.

Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for HHS, said that “no final decision was made” about the upcoming budget.

Emerging infectious diseases, published every month, provide the latest reports on the threats of infectious diseases from around the world.

He helped shape readiness and reaction to explosions, said Jason Kindrachuk, a virologist at the University of Manitoba, who published research on Marburg and MPOX viruses in the journal.

The message “is very depressing,” he said.