HHS Secretary RFK Jr is proposing banning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in top-tier journals, including JAMA and Lancet.

This is bonkers for all sorts of reasons, but let me just mention one. He points out that Lancet has retracted articles. This is factually correct, but it's a reason these journals are *more* trustworthy, not less.

Journals and peer review don't guarantee that what's published is "correct". It's merely the best process we have to get closer to finding the truth.

When people say "scientists (or experts generally) are untrustworthy because they change their opinions all the time", they're actually describing an important reason science is *more* trustworthy.
@mattblaze the US is run by people who believe Mac’s argument:

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Ptolemy said it!
I believe it!
'Nuff said!