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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “They make huge amounts of money from advertising, which is…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #639

Published | Video Starts at 29:16

Richard Horton, who are in Lancet, who still runs it, says the same thing at the, you know, the journals. And those are the people running them. What happens? They make huge amounts of money from advertising, which is paid for [by] pharmaceutical companies. And through a scheme called preprints where the pharmaceutical company plans a story, they pay for the journal about a drug that they're trying to promote. (29:16–29:23)

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Asserts that medical journals profit significantly from pharmaceutical company advertising.

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