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A little over a year ago, the Trump administration opened a new front in its war on science when the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia sent\u00a0threatening letters\u00a0to editors of several leading medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, CHEST and the American Journal of Public Health. Edward R. Martin, the conservative activist-attorney who now manages pardons for the president, questioned their editors\u2019 alleged bias against \u201ccompeting viewpoints\u201d when deciding what to publish.<\/p>\n

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Several replied with ringing defenses of their editorial practices. \u201cAs practicing physicians, our editors recognize our responsibility to doctors and patients. We use rigorous peer review and editorial processes to ensure the objectivity and reliability of the research we publish,\u201d NEJM editor\u00a0Eric Rubin wrote\u00a0Martin. \u201cWe support the editorial independence of medical journals and their First Amendment rights to free expression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics warned the letters true intent was \u201cto send a message to academic publishers to avoid crossing the Trump administration and push them to publish viewpoints more favorable to the current administration,\u201d\u00a0STAT<\/em> reported\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n

The Health and Human Services Department under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. subsequently canceled much of the research into racial health disparities, reproductive health, and the social determinants of health, branding such studies as \u201cwoke\u201d and a waste of taxpayer money. A Trump administration HHS spokeswoman said, \u201cSpending billions on divisive, politically driven D.E.I. (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives that don\u2019t deliver results is not just bad health policy\u2014it\u2019s bad government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy sent clear signals prior to his confirmation that he intended to attack science. During his run for president, he threatened to prosecute medical journals under federal anti-corruption statutes for allowing drug companies to influence their editorial decisions. His anti-vax organization\u2019s research, which claimed vaccines caused autism, never made it past journal editors and peer reviewers. The one study published over a quarter century ago that found such a link had been\u00a0retracted as fraudulent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a substantial resentment that they\u2019ve not been able to get traction for these heterodox ideas within the scientific community itself,\u201d Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington and a frequent critic of low-quality science, told Stat. \u201cSo, they are willing to tear down the fabric of science in order to try to impose these ideas on the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy\u2019s group wasn\u2019t the only Trump coalition faction seeking to force changes in the scientific publication process. Christian conservatives have frequently attacked the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and their publications for promoting abortion, LGBTQ rights and birth control access.<\/p>\n

Just two weeks before the interim district attorney letter was sent to Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG\u2019s flagship journal), the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian conservative advocacy law firm, demanded the HHS secretary cut funding and investigate the group. \u201cPaying ACOG to spend taxpayer dollars (is) inconsistent with this administration\u2019s policies on the biological basis for sex, ending racial discrimination and \u2018equity\u2019 programs, and preventing taxpayer funding for the promotion of abortion,\u201d its\u00a0\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

A new assault on science<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This week the Trump regime escalated its war on science by attacking the independence of the vetting process for studies appearing in medical and scientific journals. For the most part, the process relies on independent peer review, both at the agency level when making grants and at the journals after study results are submitted for publication.<\/p>\n

The Office of Management and Budget proposed a rule that will subject every federal research grant to a second political review. The rule, which is\u00a0open for public comment\u00a0until July 13, essentially gives political appointees at agencies like the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration veto power over grant proposals.<\/p>\n

The proposed rule also allows political appointees to summarily cancel already-awarded grants; use what an editorial on the\u00a0Science<\/em> Magazine website\u00a0called \u201cvague criteria\u201d for giving favored institutions preferable treatment; and subject every grant that involves spending money abroad to political review. \u201cThis bureaucratic hurdle would effectively prevent most if not all (international) partnerships from moving forward,\u201d an editorial in\u00a0Science<\/em>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Even before releasing this proposed rule, the regime\u2019s editorial intimidation strategy, and the publicity surrounding the initial letters sent to journal editors, triggered a dramatic slowdown in publication of articles on the subjects that Trump\u2019s most avid supporters find objectionable. This week, I conducted a small research project measuring the number of articles catalogued on the National Library of Medicine\u2019s\u00a0PubMed website\u00a0that mention various hot-button issues in either their title or abstract.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I found: Over the first five months of 2026, when compared to the similar period a year ago, there was a 24 percent drop in articles and research studies published about abortion and LBGTQ health; a 23 percent reduction in articles published in the medical literature that include the terms \u201crace\u201d or \u201cracial\u201d and \u201chealth disparities\u201d; and a 15 percent decline in articles mentioning the \u201csocial determinants of health\u201d and \u201chealth disparities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reductions in published research in those four areas far exceeded the general slowdown in published new studies, which through May 30 was about 9 percent below the comparable period a year ago. Public health experts say a number of factors are driving the overall slowdown: Cuts in research spending; the time it takes to \u201cscrub\u201d publishable studies to avoid topics or phrases that might get researchers or the publications in trouble; and disruptions to the peer review process. Beleaguered researchers in every scientific field have less time under Trump for conducting peer reviews as they struggle to maintain funding for their own projects and labs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you can\u2019t get reviewers, there is going to be a slowdown in getting stuff published and that\u2019s across the board,\u201d said Nancy Krieger, a professor of social epidemiology and an American Cancer Society clinical researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. \u201cMy university had a total blockage of grant funding for a period of time, no matter what kind of research you were doing. If you were doing a clinical trial or a genetic study that had nothing to do with health equity, your lab was affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

All science under attack<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The attack on science isn\u2019t just affecting medical research. The National Science Foundation\u2019s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) division, which funds more than 60 percent of all psychology, sociology and economics research, is threatened with closure. The NSF, whose budget is just a sixth of NIH\u2019s $48.5 billion annual budget, has also ended all support for doctoral-dissertation research in archaeology, linguistics, geography, and anthropology. Six weeks ago, it fired the 22 members of the agency\u2019s board.<\/p>\n

The<\/em>\u00a0Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0reported last month that the NSF has awarded just five social science grants this year. In a typical year, it makes about 250 grants. A White House spokesperson told the magazine\u2019s reporter the administration will fund \u201cadvancements in hard sciences, not in ideologically driven social sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n

What that ignores are the advances in NSF-funded social science that help improve the nation\u2019s health. In the 1990s, NSF financed the economics research that created major improvements in the kidney-donor-matching system. The SBE division is the primary funder of three major social-science surveys, including the world\u2019s longest running survey of families, child poverty and economic mobility. At least nine federal agencies rely on its data.<\/p>\n

The Trump regime\u2019s unceasing attacks on \u201cwoke\u201d science, coupled with its demands that prestigious journals pay more attention to quack theories, has an historical precedent. During the 1930s, Joseph Stalin promoted an obscure agronomist named Trofim Lysenko to be the Soviet Union\u2019s top scientist based on his rejection of genetics and natural selection. Lysenko claimed acquired traits could be passed along to children. Many of the scientists who opposed his views wound up in Stalin\u2019s Gulags. Some were shot. Russia never recovered, having yet to play a major role in the biological sciences.<\/p>\n

The Trump regime\u2019s science overlords, when the media come calling, have downplayed their embrace of quack science by characterizing studies of racial disparities in health outcomes, the social determinants of health and reproductive and LGBTQ health as \u201cwaste.\u201d Their spokespersons claim \u201cbillions\u201d of taxpayer dollars are being frittered away on diversity, equity and inclusion-motivated research.<\/p>\n

Yet during 2025, the total number of articles, studies and commentaries mentioning those terms in their titles or abstracts (7,798) accounted for less than one-half of one percent of all studies listed in PubMed for the year (nearly 1.9 million). Given that the average NIH grant ($622,000) generates an average of about 6.5 published articles, the total amount spent on \u201cwoke\u201d research can be roughly estimated at about $766 million \u2014 not the \u201cbillions\u201d claimed by HHS spokespersons. \u201cTo say there is a waste of funding on this kind of research is empirically false,\u201d Harvard\u2019s Krieger said.<\/p>\n

If the U.S. truly wants to reduce health care spending and make it more affordable for everyone, it needs to step up its investment in researching the causes of racial disparities in health; the role the social determinants of health (food, housing, poverty, social stress) play in driving health outcomes; and the various roadblocks subcommunities of Americans face in addressing their health needs and achieving better health.<\/p>\n

Congress has historically defined NIH\u2019s mission as both identifying the causes of disease as well as developing cures. It cannot come up with cures for the chronic diseases plaguing this nation unless it addresses the social factors that are its primary cause. That requires more research into those social factors, not less.<\/p>\n

The Trump regime\u2019s proposed rule will set back that kind of scientific research for years. That\u2019s probably why the editors of Science is a clarion call for political action this week, something one rarely sees in the academic literature.<\/p>\n

\u201cHigher education and its associations need to firmly oppose these changes, which would create a massive morale and financial problem in addition to curtailing important research,\u201d Editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp wrote in the\u00a0editorial. \u201cThe scientific community needs to flood OMB with responses during the\u00a0public comment period. Universities and associations must speak out as a united front to mobilize Congress and be ready to file lawsuits once the regulations are finalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sympathetic to members of the scientific establishment who\u00a0played it carefully\u00a0during last year\u2019s budget negotiations. Getting the budget deal done was crucial. But that was then,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe red light is now flashing. All hands, report to stations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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