THE PLAN TO 'TRUMPPROOF' US SCIENCE AGAINST MEDDLING

"Upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity across the Federal government is of vital importance for keeping all of America safe, healthy, and secure," Arati Prabhakar, Biden's science adviser and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), wrote in an accompanying memorandum to federal agencies. [...]in August last year, the US National Academy of Sciences penalized Jane Lubchenco, the OSTP's deputy director for climate and the environment, for violating conflict-of-interest rules by editing a paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that was co-authored by a former student, who is now her brother-in-law. A permanent solution would be to enact a federal law that would make it illegal for government officials now and in the future to violate scientific-integrity policies. [...]far, efforts to introduce such a bill in Congress have fallen short, but Carter remains hopeful.