Biden’s got a plan to protect science from Trump

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/27/biden-plan-protect-science-trump-00160001

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The Biden administration is setting up new tripwires for Donald Trump at America’s premier health research agency to safeguard against political interference if Trump wins in November.

In an effort to Trump-proof, NIH has designated an official to identify political meddling in the agency’s work and is tasking a soon-to-be-established scientific integrity council with reviewing those cases. The White House knows Trump could still cast those plans aside but is calculating that doing so will set off alarms with the media, Congress and the public. The Biden administration likely hopes GOP lawmakers, even those who think the NIH needs an overhaul, will temper Trump’s moves.

“Interfering and manipulating science to hit a partisan agenda is inappropriate and is what we’re working to wall against,” Lyric Jorgenson, NIH’s designated scientific integrity official, said in an interview. She added: The plan to protect the agency’s independence is critical because the public needs to be able to rely on NIH to “generate rigorous, trusted evidence to inform public health.”

The NIH gives out more money to health researchers than any outfit in the world — more than $40 billion a year — and, other than a Senate-confirmed director, has long been able to operate relatively free of politics.

As president, Trump threatened to fire a top agency official, Anthony Fauci, and prompted another to quit after Trump pitched hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment. Scientific organizations that work with NIH now worry Trump’s potential return to the White House, inflamed by GOP anger over the public health bureaucracy’s pandemic advice, might bring more concerted attempts to influence the agency’s decisions.

In addition to assigning Jorgenson as the NIH’s watchdog, the White House has directed other health agencies that got caught up in the Covid wars, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, to strengthen their scientific integrity plans, both to ensure that research is rigorous, bias-free, transparent and reliable — and that nonpartisan civil servants are making the research decisions.

 

The old coot should maybe pay attention to being president of you know, the good old US of A.  

[nobody 2,691]

 Interfering and manipulating science to hit a partisan agenda is inappropriate and is what we’re working to wall against,”

So basically they don't want anyone questioning them which is funny because true science invites questions.

 

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Gotta love it.  Biden is going to prevent political interference by interfering politically!  

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41 minutes ago, nobody said:

 Interfering and manipulating science to hit a partisan agenda is inappropriate and is what we’re working to wall against,”

So basically they don't want anyone questioning them which is funny because true science invites questions.

 

 

 

 

I was going to ask if she said that with a straight face. 

 

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43 minutes ago, nobody said:

 Interfering and manipulating science to hit a partisan agenda is inappropriate and is what we’re working to wall against,”

So basically they don't want anyone questioning them which is funny because true science invites questions.

As they, of course, are manipulating science to hit a partisan agenda.