RFK Jr. amends guidelines for key vaccine panel - POLITICO

“They’re actually going further to advance their cause by creating room to bring in more junk science, more alternative views, anti-vaccine views,” Hughes said.

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/rfk-jr-amends-guidelines-for-key-vaccine-panel-00866086

 

GOP Moves To Curb Abortion Pills With Junk Science | HuffPost Latest News

"It's troubling that President Trump's new FDA commissioner has refused to acknowledge mifepristone's longstanding record of overwhelming safety and efficacy," Liz Wagner, senior federal policy counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, told HuffPost. "And it's even more troubling that a deeply flawed, non-peer-reviewed 'study' was released by an anti-abortion group immediately after Dr. Makary told a reporter that the FDA may act on 'a real signal' on mifepristone." …

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-lays-groundwork-to-pull-abortion-pill-access-with-new-junk-science-report_n_6812975be4b04cfa6e2b45e0 

 

Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work | Abortion | The Guardian

Of the 22 studies cited by the meta-analysis, 11 were by the lone author of the paper itself. The meta-analysis "failed to meet any published methodological criteria for systematic reviews" and failed to follow recommendations to avoid statistical dependencies, according to a criticism published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). 

Large scientific bodies have found no evidence to suggest abortion causes increases in mental health problems. The best predictor of a woman's mental health after an abortion is her health before. What's more, there is substantial evidence that women who are denied a wanted abortion suffer both mental and financial harms... 

The case was appealed all the way to the supreme court, where it was heard in March in oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v FDA. Just weeks before the justices were set to hear the case, and as nearly the entire scientific community screamed about the "junk science" at its heart, the heavily cited studies were retracted by Sage Publications. Even so, the article's claims remained in briefs before the court, and were cited as evidence by one of the most conservative justices, Samuel Alito…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/junk-science-papers-abortion-cases

How rightwing groups used junk science to get a case before the US supreme court

Anti-abortion researchers 'exaggerate' and 'obfuscate' in their scientific papers – but by the time they're published, it's too late… 

 Adkins' concerns go to the heart of a problem that has bedeviled scientists for at least a decade: the judicial system's repeated adoption of poor-quality evidence to justify litigation and legislation to restrict abortion. Often that evidence is produced by the anti-abortion movement itself. 

 FDA v AHM is scheduled for oral arguments on Tuesday. The suit, brought by anti-abortion doctors, seeks to force the FDA to reverse decisions that relaxed restrictions on prescribing mifepristone. The Biden administration and the medication's manufacturer argue the doctors have no right to sue in the first place. 

 The study Adkins complained about is central to the doctors' case, and was cited heavily by a federal district court in Amarillo, Texas, that kicked off the government's appeal when it found in favor of anti-abortion doctors...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/23/anti-abortion-junk-science-supreme-court   

The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh - The Washington Post

Sen. Susan Collins was the latest to suggests that Brett Kavanaugh's accuser was assaulted by someone else. Memory science suggests the opposite. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/10/07/republicans-who-believed-ford-doubted-her-memory-relied-junk-science-researchers-say/

They’re the think tank pushing for welfare work requirements. Republicans say they’re experts. Economists call it ‘junk science.’ - The Washington Post

The Foundation for Government Accountability think tank has close ties to conservative governors in Kansas, Maine and Mississippi — and an outsize influence on Republican debate over work requirements for food stamps. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/18/theyre-the-think-tank-pushing-for-welfare-work-requirements-republicans-say-theyre-experts-economists-call-it-junk-science/

The Trump Administration Just Officially Endorsed Anti-Contraception Junk Science -- Mother Jones

Late last month, the department of Health and Human Services published its 2018-2022 draft strategic plan, opening it up for comment through the end of October. The document contains a number of changes to the last plan, which spanned 2014-2018. But one in particular stands out: ....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/look-at-the-junk-science-about-contraception-in-the-health-departments-new-manifesto/