---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Latham <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:22 AM Subject: What Happened to Obama's Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity? To: [email protected] Dear Friends and Colleagues Published today (Mon, April 20th), on *Independent Science News*: *What Happened to Obama's Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?* By Jonathan Latham, PhD http://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/what-happened-to-obamas-promise-t... *Synopsis:* For plenty of people, including many outside academia, President Obama was elected as an intellectual hero. In the standard narrative, after the corruption of the Bush era, President Obama would return enlightenment values to government. Thus, in his inauguration speech the new President proposed to "restore science" to its rightful position. In his own words, it was "a key campaign promise". The President duly ordered measures to turn his promise into a reality. For a while, the resulting policy developments were closely watched, but press interest faded. The latest (i.e. slowest) agency to adopt the President's scientific integrity regime is arguably the most important and certainly is the most interesting. In 2013 the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appointed Francesca Grifo as its Officer of Scientific Integrity. Dr Grifo joined EPA from the Union of Concerned Scientists where she headed its scientific integrity programme. Her first report has just been published. The report shows Grifo has ducked the challenge of bringing scientific integrity to the EPA. Enjoy and please share this article Jonathan Jonathan Latham, PhD Executive Director The Bioscience Resource Project Ithaca, NY 14850 USA www.independentsciencenews.org and www.bioscienceresource.org [email protected] Skype: jonathanlatham2 Tel: 1-607-319-0279 “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda _______________________________________________ BSR-project-elist1 mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/bsr-project-elist1 To unsubscribe, email [email protected] -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/