Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would “probably” stop having government scientists publish their findings in several of the largest medical journals, decrying them as “corrupt.”

Kennedy claimed several of the most prominent medical journals were under the thumb of pharmaceutical companies and accused them of publishing studies funded and approved by those companies during an appearance on the Ultimate Human podcast on Tuesday.

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“We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, [Journal of the American Medical Association] and those other journals, because they’re all corrupt,” Kennedy said.

The HHS Secretary said that the government would publish studies in its own journals unless there is a dramatic change in the dynamics of the major journals.

“Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop [National Institutes of Health] scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house,” Kennedy said on the podcast.

Kennedy has been critical of the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment since entering his job as head of HHS earlier this year.

Last week, the Trump administration released a Make America Healthy Again Commission assessment that blamed the pharmaceutical and food industries for the rise in childhood chronic diseases. The report criticized both industries for shaping science and safety standards for chemical exposure.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week calling federal agencies to focus their scientific research on returning to “gold-standard science” by ensuring their studies are reproducible and falsifiable. The order specifically directs government scientists to implement more robust peer review processes and to reduce conflicts of interest in their research.

The Trump administration has also discussed significant cuts to HHS funding, including cutting $18 billion from the NIH budget next year. The cuts to that agency were made due to its role in the COVID-19 pandemic and transgender research, per the budget proposal.