At the hectic pace of the Trump administration, it easily wins to lose sight of smaller but still important successes. The administration has just terminated a contract and has canceled three others, with Springer Nature.
Springer Nature is an academic publisher that includes a consortium of science publications. Financing something like that may seem harmless, but Springer is a colossus in the scientific publication world and susceptible to errors and politicized decision -making.
Trump Admin ends contracts with the publication of gigantic Springer in the midst of bias, China Conerns
Springer has long been considered a company that focuses on political goals and not scientific. Hun tijdschriften hadden een groot deel van de pandemie besteed aan het bagatelliseren van de COVID-19 lablektheorie die in het tijdschrift Nature Medicine werd afgesloten, al in 17 maart 2020, dat “omdat we alle opmerkelijke SARS-COV-2-kenmerken hebben waargenomen, inclusief de geoptimaliseerde RBD en polybasische spleetplek, in gerelateerde coronaviruss in de natuur, we doen dat een soort Laboratory scenario is. ” The newspaper was called “the proximal origin of SARS-COV-2” and the goal was to remove all discussion about the Lableket theory.
The Springer Nature GmbH logo in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange during the list in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday, October 4, 2024. (Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty images)
A domestic committee, in July 2023, found That “Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins the newspaper followed by the assessment and publication process. And finally, Dr. Collins, when proximal origin did not successfully killed the Lablaklekteket theory. Then he asked Dr. Fauci if there was something more that they could do. The next day, Dr. Fauci cited Dr.Podium.”
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The committee concluded: “Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci used proximal origin to try to kill the Lablekker theory. This is the anatomy of a cover-up.”
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In 2017, Springer confirmed “that it limits access to hundreds of articles that relate to topics that are considered sensitive to the Chinese authorities.”
The censorship is not limited to Covid and China. Two years ago, Springer withdrawn A peer-reviewed paper about gender dysphoria after pressure from activists who have not approved the findings. Michael Bailey, the author of the study, had never had an article before. This is not science. This is a political position.
Springer Nature also counts scientists from Exorbitant to publish their work. One study showed that Springer collected $ 589.7 million in “article processing costs” in just three years. The researcher in that study showed that the scientific publishers “reach between 30% and 40%, well above most industries.”
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This is not a company that should receive public funds and it is exactly the kind of things that would have unnoticed in earlier Republican administrations. Why do we finance a private publisher, let alone a strange, a foreign political tendency? The laser focus of the Trump administration on cost-saving, but also on making the cutbacks specifically to politized, bloated entities such as Springer, it is worth celebrating.
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Transparency is also a focus of the administration. On July 1, National Institutes of Health Head Jay Bhattacharya placed about a new NIH policy to release all the audience once it has been published. “The American people should immediately have free access to the science that we are so generously financing via the @NIH. From today we will do that.”
The Trump administration to Springer is around $ 20 million and, a source that Axios told, billions are evaluated more. It is a strong start. Most Americans will ask why we once financed such a company. President Donald Trump can say: we no longer.
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