Friday, April 25, 2025

NYTimes Says: New England Journal Gets "Vague Threatening" Prosecutor Letter

 On April 25, 2025, New York Times reported that New England Journal of Medicine received a letter described in the article as "vaguely threatening" - from a federal prosecutor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/nejm-prosecutor-letter.html


The news may have been first reported by Stat Plus:

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/new-england-journal-of-medicine-us-attorney-letter-scientific-journals/

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I made the point in March, that nearly every Op Ed in places like JAMA, NEJM, Annals of Internal Medicine,since November, has been negative about the administration (and by extension, the majority party on the Hill.)   Concurrently, AMA has gotten nowhere in its battle against the most dramatic price cut ever in physician Medicare pay levels (see hte same blog).   It seemed to me there was a dotted line between publishing 20 negative JAMA op eds in a row against Republicans, and then, surprise, AMA lobbyists get a cold shoulder on the Hill when they come asking for a pay raise to Republicans.