Kennedy introduces bill to prevent medical researchers from burying results that undermine radicals’ agenda

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today introduced the Scientific Research Accessibility and Transparency Act (SRATA) of 2024 to ensure that American taxpayers have access to the medical research that they fund regardless of what the studies show.

The SRATA would require researchers who receive grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to submit their findings or the data collected to the NIH within one year of the study's completion. The legislation would prohibit researchers who do not share that data from receiving future federal funding for five years.

"Gender activists have insisted that puberty blockers help kids overcome mental health issues associated with gender dysphoria-even when research doesn't support that claim. If the federal government funds medical research, Americans should have access to the facts that it reveals. This bill would make sure that taxpayers get to see the research results that they've paid for so that political maneuvering can't bury the truth," said Kennedy.

The New York Times recently revealed that Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy withheld the results of a study on the mental health effects of puberty-blocking drugs on children that she conducted over a nine-year period.

Olson-Kennedy's research was part of a project that received a reported $9.7 million in NIH funding, but she plans to withhold the results of the study because she believes the data would support arguments for protecting children from puberty blockers.

The SRATA is available here.