Carter is founder of SciLight and an expert in scientific integrity and federal science policy. Goldman is the president and CEO of the Union of Concerned Scientists. On May 23, the Trump ...

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Gold standard science (GSS). It's a simple idea: Conduct the best, unbiased scientific research possible. However, as with many simple ideas, GSS has been co-opted by MAHA as yet another tool to ...

President Donald J. Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is drawing strong criticism from scientists who say the order gives the administration a way to discount scientific ...

The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say they want the government to ...

Late last month, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a document detailing its vision for scientific integrity. Its nine tenets, first laid out in President Donald Trump’s ...

US science agencies have begun releasing their plans to comply with US President Donald Trump’s call for ‘gold-standard science’. The plans mainly detail efforts towards achieving widely supported ...

A new term keeps popping up in messages from Trump administration scientific agencies — a pledge to restore “gold-standard science.” Many scientists say the opposite is happening. The administration’s ...

On May 23, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Restoring Gold Standard Science.” And, in news that may surprise our readers, it sounds remarkably good, focusing on issues like ...

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