Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned.
The edict, laid down in emails on Friday by Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas.
Publishing to journals, AKA a prime motivator for scientists? Good plan, you incompetent stooges.
Also, public funding should have public results.
This is why we need an open access oasis where people can anonymously and securely drop their research papers, hosted in a safe country. Still wanna create my own but I’m too broke and don’t have enough skill to pull it off.
Not very anonymous when the list of suspects and list of authors is identical, unless I’m misunderstanding your idea.
I kinda meant a place where the author(s) and researcher(s) could scrub any identifiable info like their names and/or anything else that would help identify them in order to get their work out, either as author/researcher anonymous or under a random pseudonym, if it isn’t safe for them to publish under their working conditions.
These traitors must be forced to account.
