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.
This report describes the existing protections for scientific records, and their applications, in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Research institutions can use this free model language to adopt strong, comprehensive scientific integrity policies.
"While this report does a good job of setting the stage, there is also a lot more that needs to be done to actually guarantee protections for federal science,” says Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
We documented 328 anti-science actions taken by the Trump administration. Biden has only reversed or reconsidered nine of them.
Concerns about political interference have plagued many US administrations, says Lauren Kurtz, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund’s executive director.
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