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COMMENTARY | Idiocracy: Loyalty Displaces Competence in Trump World

by Jeff Ruch | August 1, 2025
In his second term, Trump has assembled perhaps the least distinguished Cabinet in modern history, abandoning any pretense of picking people based upon competence ...

COMMENTARY | Trump’s Attack on Science Will Leave Us All Sicker

by Tim Whitehouse | June 23, 2025
The Trump administration’s evisceration of the federal agencies that protect our health and environment is a full-throttled attack on science that will set our nation back for years, if not decades to come ...

New Integrity Rules Differ on Allowable Scientist Speech 

by Susan Sargent | February 1, 2024
Agencies Range from Bans on Policy Discussion to “Open Discourse” Pledges ...

First Biden Scientific Integrity Policy Falls Well Short

by Susan Sargent | September 5, 2023
Timid Health & Human Services Proposal Will Not Prevent Trump Abuses ...

U.S. Public Health Research to Face New Restrictions

by Susan Sargent | August 16, 2023
Impending Ban on HHS Scientists Raising Policy Implications of Research ...
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