EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler raised some eyebrows at yesterday’s EPA’s Science Advisory Board meeting with one particularly misguided statement. Read more >
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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks at the EPA Science Advisory Board meeting on June 5, 2019 Photo: Gretchen Goldman
Wheeler’s Breathtaking Ignorance of Science, in One Comment
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
June 6, 2019 8:58 AM EDT
Photo: John F. Williams, US Navy/CC BY 2.0, Flickr
Understanding the New Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research, and Attacks on the Scientists Who Use It
Michael Halpern, Deputy director, Center for Science & Democracy
June 5, 2019 6:21 PM EDT
If you want to understand the toxic and skewed discussion around the use of fetal tissue in research, the negative consequences for individual scientists and their work, and the consequences of these new restrictions, here are some good places to start. Read more >
Photo: Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr
Court Records Reveal Plan to Use Census for Racial Discrimination
Michael Latner, Kendall Science Fellow
May 31, 2019 9:51 AM EDT
Just weeks before the Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of placing a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, newly released documents from a federal trial demonstrate that Trump administration officials falsely testified about the Justice Department’s motives and justification for adding the question, a decision that has been roundly criticized by the nation’s leading scientific and civil rights organizations. The documents reveal that renowned and recently deceased redistricting expert Thomas Hofeller played a direct role in advocating for a Census citizenship question that would provide data needed to implement racially discriminatory gerrymanders using citizen-only redistricting populations.
USDA Provides Blueprint for Dismantling a Government Research Agency
Rebecca Boehm, Economist
April 30, 2019 5:10 PM EDT
For scientists, it’s a significant accomplishment to get your work published in a peer-reviewed journal. The process of submitting a paper, fielding reviewer comments, and revising the work can take months (or years!), and final publication in a respected journal lends credibility to any researcher’s work. So it was odd when the Washington Post reported last week that USDA was now requiring its researchers to label outside peer-reviewed scientific publications with the word “preliminary”. But this wasn’t actually news to me. And it isn’t the only way the Trump administration is undermining the USDA’s important research role. Read more >
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Photo: USDA/Flickr
Uncharted Territory: The EPA’s Science Advisors Just Called Out Administrator Wheeler
Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
April 12, 2019 11:16 AM EDT
Yesterday the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) published a letter to Administrator Andrew Wheeler and acknowledged the group has inadequate expertise to conduct an essential review of the health impacts of particulate matter and ozone. We are now in uncharted territory and the EPA is in a tough position. Here are some key highlights from the letter and their implications. Read more >
