{"id":1281381,"date":"2022-02-08T06:20:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1281381"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:22:48","slug":"bidens-top-science-adviser-resigns-after-report-on-demeaning-conduct-toward-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-top-science-adviser-resigns-after-report-on-demeaning-conduct-toward-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Top Science Adviser Resigns After Report On \u2018Demeaning\u2019 Conduct Toward Staff"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbidens-top-science-adviser-resigns-after-report-on-demeaning-conduct-toward-staff%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=1281381&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Eric-Lander-1-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s top science adviser resigned on Monday after the results of an internal White House investigation into his treatment of staff leaked to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) director Eric Lander stepped down from his cabinet-level position Tuesday evening after he was found to have habitually demeaned and bullied staff. Lander apologized for his behavior on Friday and resigned Monday evening following media reports on the results of the White House investigation into his conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a great honor to serve as your Science Advisor and to work with the extraordinarily talented career and non-career colleagues at the Office of Science and Technology Policy,\u201d Lander wrote in his resignation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1490866682172112898\">letter<\/a>. \u201cI am writing to submit my resignation, to be effective no later than February 18 in order to permit an orderly transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am devastated that I caused hurt to past and present colleagues by the way in which I have spoken to them,\u201d he added. \u201c[I]t is clear that things I said, and the way I said them, crossed the line at times into being disrespectful and demeaning, to both men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden had accepted Lander\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President accepted Dr. Eric Lander\u2019s resignation letter this evening, with gratitude for his work at OSTP on the pandemic, the cancer moonshot, climate change, and other key priorities,\u201d Psaki said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/07\/eric-lander-resigns-00006545\">Politico<\/a>. \u201cHe knows that Dr. Lander will continue to make important contributions to the scientific community in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House conducted a two-month investigation into Landers conduct and delivered the results in an internal briefing by White House deputy director of management and administration for personnel Christian Peele. A recording of the briefing was obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/07\/eric-lander-white-house-investigation-00006077\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Peele said that the investigation turned up \u201ccredible evidence of disrespectful interactions with staff by Dr. Lander and OSTP leadership\u201d and that Lander spoke \u201charshly and disrespectfully to colleagues in front of other colleagues,\u201d according to the recording.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation found credible evidence of instances of multiple women having complained to other staff about negative interactions with Dr. Lander, where he spoke to them in a demeaning or abrasive way in front of other staff,\u201d Peele said.<\/p>\n<p>In one of his first public addresses after taking office, Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-warns-white-house-staff-hell-fire-them-on-the-spot-if-they-disrespect-others\">promised<\/a>&nbsp;to fire \u201con the spot\u201d anyone caught \u201ctreat[ing] another colleague with disrespect\u201d or \u201ctalk[ing] down to someone.\u201d No such action has been taken against Lander.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the White House and OSTP acknowledged Lander\u2019s violations of White House policies in separate statements. The White House said Lander met with other top White House officials over the actions. OSTP said that \u201ccorrective action was taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lander\u2019s position as head of OSTP was elevated to a Cabinet-level position for the first time under Biden. The administration\u2019s top science adviser has taken on a leading role in shaping Biden\u2019s response to COVID-19, and the president chose Lander last week to head up the administration\u2019s Cancer Moonshot to make significant progress into cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>Lander\u2019s appointment was controversial to some who pointed to his reputation as being someone who is difficult to work with. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/06\/landers-all-staff-mea-culpa-is-the-latest-in-a-string-of-apologies\/\">Stat News<\/a>&nbsp;reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>His appointment in January 2021 was met with a mixed reaction: While many celebrated his central role in the Human Genome Project and the work he has pioneered since co-founding the Broad Institute, others warned his selection failed to account for his past missteps or the need to diversify the the upper echelons of science.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In particular, detractors cited a handful of incidents from Lander\u2019s past: His toast of James Watson, who has expressed racist and misogynistic sentiments; his perceived slight of two women researchers who helped develop the gene-editing technology CRISPR; and his broader penchant for soaking up the scientific limelight and the funding that accompanies it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s top science adviser resigned on Monday after the results of an internal White House investigation into his treatment of staff leaked to the press.Office of Science and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}