[P2P-F] Fwd: What Happened to Obama's Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?

Mon Apr 20 13:19:06 CEST 2015

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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:22 AM
Subject: What Happened to Obama's Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?
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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-to-restore-scientific-integrity/

*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
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www.bioscienceresource.org

jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279

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