A major science journal has rejected calls from US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr to retract a published study, after he called it “deeply flawed” and accused the researchers of having “bought conclusions”. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The study, published in July in Annals of Internal Medicine, reported the results of a long-running study of Danish children, which found no evidence for a link between aluminum compounds contained in some vaccines and chronic health problems.

We’ll come back to the actual content of the study later, but for now, let’s take a whistlestop tour through the scientific publishing process, why Kennedy’s request was so unorthodox, and why the journal has roundl

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