‘MAHA Report’ Calls for Fighting Chronic Disease, but Trump and Kennedy Have Yanked Funding - KFF Health News

The administration has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion .

The report says more research is needed on health-related topics such as chronic diseases and the cumulative effects of chemicals in the environment.

But the administration has sowed widespread fear in the scientific world that it is out to stifle or skew research that challenges its desired conclusions.

“There are many inconsistencies between rhetoric and action,” said chief science officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation .

Researchers are scrambling to find money to keep following 200,000 people who enrolled in studies beginning in the 1980s .

The information could retrospectively reveal exposures before people were born, when they were still in utero.

The administration has fired or pushed out almost 5,000 NIH employees, blocked almost $3 billion in grant funding from being awarded.

Many scientists and other scholars see the Trump administration waging a war on science that conflicts with its agenda.

The MAHA report says “the U.S. government is committed to fostering radical transparency and gold-standard science” But many scientists say ceding ground to industry won’t help.