Monitoring Scientific Integrity in the US: Silencing Science Tracker
Skeptical Science | Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack | May 1, 2025
Ordinarily we employ the term “scientific integrity” in connection with staying true to ethical norms of the philosophy of science. Today however in the US there is an external threat to scientific integrity. The structural integrity of the US scientific enterprise is being actively attacked and degraded by forces uninterested in our better understanding of our world and thus how we can better thrive.
The scope and speed of the destruction levied on US science practice challenges our comprehension; it’s hard or impossible for us as members of the general public to see the scale of wreckage now unfolding in the US….
… Fortunately there are people with practiced skills and established resources for helping us comprehend the amount of damage being done to science, and who is responsible for that. Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund have long maintained a resource for just this purpose, the Silencing Science Tracker. While both sponsoring organizations are climate-focused, the Silencing Science Tracker has always been comprehensive across scientific disciplines and affords us a complete picture of the breadth and depth of the assault we’re witnessing.