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      Biden Admin Scientific Integrity Policy Falls Short, Warn Watchdogs

      "Nothing about this proposed policy would prevent a return to the reign of 'alternative facts' should Trump be reelected," said one critic.

      Julia Conley
      Sep 05, 2023

      A coalition of public health and science advocacy groups on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to strengthen its proposed scientific integrity policy, warning that the proposal does little to solve the problem of the political interference that was rampant in the federal government under former Republican President Donald Trump.

      Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order pledging to "protect scientists from political interference and ensure they can think, research, and speak freely to provide valuable information and insights to the American people," followed by a requirement for federal agencies to review how such interference can be avoided through policy changes.

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      Brown Bear and Two Cubs against a Forest and Mountain Backdrop at Katmai National Park, Alaska

      Green Groups Call on Biden Admin to End Support for 'Scientifically Bankrupt' Wildlife Killing

      "The FWS is tasked with preventing extinctions, using sound science when making decisions to prevent those extinctions, and with being accountable to the entire public—not funding controversial predator-control actions for the purported benefit of a few."

      Julia Conley
      Aug 15, 2023

      A rulemaking petition demanding an end to federal support for the removal of wolves and bears from states such as Alaska has been languishing at the U.S. Interior Department for almost two years, nearly three dozen conservation groups and scientists said in a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Tuesday as they raised alarm about a recent killing operation.

      Led by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Humane Society of the United States, and the Global Indigenous Council, 35 organizations wrote to the secretary to raise alarm about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) continued funding of "irresponsible and controversial predator-control projects."

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      Herding Cats: Biden's Myopic Approach to Scientific Integrity

      The president has made it clear he believes scientific integrity is an important value. Now he must show it more forcefully.

      Jeff Ruch
      Kyla Bennett
      Feb 15, 2023

      Just a week after his inauguration nearly two years ago, President Joe Biden issued an all-agency directive to strengthen the scientific integrity policies commissioned under former President Barack Obama and that had proven to be utterly ineffectual during the "alternative facts" tenure of President Donald Trump.

      Biden's directive laid out an elaborate process overseen by his White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that has already fallen months behind schedule.

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