Prof. Richard Painter Quoted in BioSpace About Censorship Coming From HHS

Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was quoted in a BioSpace editorial about the potential for censorship from the Department of Health and Human Services. The author wrote, “Transparency and consistency have been sorely wanting in the second Trump administration, but a much more sinister authoritarian evil is beginning to rear its ugly head: censorship. Nowhere is this more evident than in the upper echelons of the Department of Health and Human Services, where Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it clear that views not consistent with his own will be silenced or distorted.” Prof. Painter agreed in the editorial that scientific censorship by federal governments is not new, and it has not been limited to the far right or the far left. He said, “There’s objective truth in science, and the extreme left and extreme right have always wanted to deny objective truth. Unfortunately, most of the politicization of science has been on the far right in the United States.”