Stupid Is As Stupid Does

 And then we go after “Better Homes and Gardens” for not publishing articles about “lesser homes and gardens.”

[RFK, Jr.] had been nursing grievances about scientific journals for years. Medical and science publishers have long rejected article submissions that purport to show a link between vaccines and autism. (Dozens of studies have failed to establish such a link.)

He said in a podcast interview last year that he would seek to prosecute medical journals under the federal anti-corruption statute.

“I’m going to litigate against you under the racketeering laws, under the general tort laws,” he said. “I’m going to find a way to sue you unless you come up with a plan right now to show how you’re going to start publishing real science and stop retracting the real science and publishing the fake pharmaceutical science by these phony industry mercenaries.”

As examples, he pointed to two prominent journals, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, and the scientific publishing giant, Elsevier.

Other top health officials in the Trump administration have also criticized the big scientific publishers. In a book published last year, Dr. Martin A. Makary, the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, accused journal editorial boards of “gate-keeping” and publishing only information that supports a “groupthink narrative.”

Proving once again Kennedy is neither a lawyer nor a scientist, because tort law nor racketeering law apply to any of his complaints. There are also issues of standing (how is he harmed?) and that pesky First Amendment. And the DOJ lawyers threatening to investigate such journals for “bias” are likely to have their licenses coming under review for abusive and unethical behavior, including abuse of authority. The free market and First Amendment solutions to journals not publishing your articles is to start your own journal. If you can’t get Poetry Magazine to publish your poetry, you can’t sue them for bias against poetasters. The government certainly can’t investigate journals (or anyone/thing) groundlessly. That’s grounds for any government lawyers to lose their licenses.

These people are literally too stupid to understand how stupid they are.