This guide helps scientists navigate the First Amendment so they can be involved in their communities and the political process while minimizing concerns about negative repercussions in their professional lives.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has convened an inter-agency task force to review agency scientific integrity policies.
Research institutions can use this free model language to adopt strong, comprehensive scientific integrity policies.
Lauren Kurtz, CSLDF's director, was quoted in E&E News following an EPA meeting on scientific integrity after Trump. EPA is currently reviewing past scientific integrity complaints and other communications with scientific integrity officers, but EPA's Scientific Integrity Official also emphasized not "dwelling in the past." Said Kurtz, "It's a challenging balance because there is a real need to learn from past mistakes, and we know that many issues are not reported.... [T]here is a need for a very thorough review of past failings to learn how to better protect science in the future."
An op-ed co-authored by Lauren Kurtz, CSLDF's director, asserts that things are improving, but there’s still a lot President Biden can do to restore the role of science in federal policy.
Josh Wolfe, a CSLDF co-founder, describes the harassment and attacks experienced by NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt throughout his career.
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