{"id":1207746,"date":"2022-01-11T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207746"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:19:41","slug":"biden-task-force-tells-agencies-how-to-protect-scientific-integrity-from-political-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-task-force-tells-agencies-how-to-protect-scientific-integrity-from-political-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Task Force Tells Agencies How To Protect \u2018Scientific Integrity\u2019 From Political Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-task-force-tells-agencies-how-to-protect-scientific-integrity-from-political-influence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207746&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration\u2019s scientific integrity task force drafted a report released Tuesday instructing federal agencies on how to ensure science is not influenced or interfered with, including by political actors.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/01-22-Protecting_the_Integrity_of_Government_Science.pdf\"><u>report<\/u><\/a>, titled \u201cProtecting the Integrity of Government Science\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/nstc\/scientific-integrity-task-force\/\"><u>drafted<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;by the Office of Science and Technology Policy\u2019s (OSTP) Scientific Integrity Task Force, is intended to assess federal agencies\u2019 commitment to scientific integrity and provide guidelines for agencies going forward. The report examined instances of perceived political interference in scientific policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough violations of scientific integrity are small in number compared to the magnitude of the Federal Government\u2019s scientific enterprise, they can have an outsized, detrimental impact on decision-making and public trust in science,\u201d the report said. \u201cAs illustrated by high-profile cases, political intrusion into the conduct, management, communication, and use (or misuse) of science has a severe impact on public trust in Federal science.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/11\/republican-congressmen-accuse-biden-ignoring-science-reopening-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: 66 GOP Congressmen Accuse Biden Of Ignoring Science On Reopening Schools)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7206503\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7206503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President-elect Joe Biden introduces nominees for his science team on January 16, 2021, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The task force cited two instances in which it believed former President Donald Trump interfered with federal agencies\u2019 scientific integrity, the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/05\/30\/supreme-court-citizenship-census\/\"><u>include<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;a citizenship question in the 2020 census and Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/09\/05\/cnn-mislabeled-alabama-trump-doctored-weather-map\/\"><u>forecasting<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;during Hurricane Dorian.<\/p>\n<p>The report sought to examine the impact of perceived violations of scientific integrity on policymaking and how best to prevent such violations in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first comprehensive assessment that we\u2019ve had across the entire federal government of what needs to be done to ensure scientific integrity in our government,\u201d Dr. Jane Lubchenco, OSTP deputy director for Climate and Environment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/11\/politics\/political-influence-on-science-federal-government\/index.html\"><u>told<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;CNN. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen that when we don\u2019t have good policies in place, and when they aren\u2019t enforced, that bad information can get out, and that undermines public trust in government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The task force also offered agencies guidelines on how to address scientific integrity policy violations and how to enforce scientific integrity rules.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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