Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann, and Brian Nosek have written an excellent critique of the new Trump "gold standard" for science.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/trump-american-science

"Instead of being about #OpenScience, it grants administration-aligned political appointees the power to designate any research as scientific misconduct based on their own “judgment” and includes the power to punish the scientists involved…Science does not proceed by sequentially establishing unassailable conclusions, but rather by steadily accumulating numerous lines of evidence, scrutinizing its weaknesses, and pursuing additional evidence. Almost any study…falls short of meeting every aspect of the White House’s list of best practices. This has nothing to do with laziness, let alone misconduct…; it’s simply a consequence of the fact that science is difficult…Political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct, and then penalize the researchers involved accordingly."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Lysenko #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics