{"id":1609492,"date":"2022-08-16T18:41:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609492"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:41:21","slug":"white-house-climate-official-violates-ethics-code-of-major-science-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-climate-official-violates-ethics-code-of-major-science-org\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Climate Official Violates Ethics Code Of Major Science Org"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fwhite-house-climate-official-violates-ethics-code-of-major-science-org%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=1609492&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\/08\/2021-03-19T000000Z_530840709_RC2KEM98KC7A_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN-SCIENCE-LUBCHENCO-scaled-e1660686489665.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House climate aide Jane Lubchenco was sanctioned by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today for violating its Code of Conduct, Axios reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lubchenco, who is the deputy director for climate and environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, violated the NAS\u2019 ethics policies prior to her involvement with the White House, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/16\/white-house-climate-official-sanctioned?utm_campaign=editorial&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\">reported<\/a>. Lubchenco edited a paper that was eventually retracted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) due to technical errors in the analysis, as well as the fact that Lubchenco had previously worked with the scientists involved, one of whom was her brother-in-law, E&#038;E News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/national-academy-sanctions-white-house-climate-adviser\/\">reported<\/a> Tuesday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/white-house-climate-denial-roundtable\/\">(RELATED: White House To Hold First-Ever \u2018Climate Denial\u2019 Roundtable)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAS members shall avoid those detrimental research practices that are clear violations of the fundamental tenets of research,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/about-nas\/code-of-conduct\/nas-code-of-conduct.pdf\">reads<\/a> the NAS Code of Conduct Section 3, which Axios reports Lubchenco was held accountable for violating. \u201cMembers should be fair and objective peer reviewers, maintain confidentiality when requested, promptly move to correct the literature when errors in their own work are detected, include all deserving authors on publications, and give appropriate credit to prior work in citations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accept these sanctions for my error in judgment in editing a paper authored by some of my research collaborators \u2014 an error for which I have publicly stated my regret,\u201d Lubchenco said, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<p>The sanctions follow Republican criticism of Lubchenco and the Biden administration, with Reps. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma, Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma and Jay Obernolte of California requesting in a Feb. 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-science.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/f\/5\/f50f9c06-a9d1-48eb-969d-4f41781a8fd2\/CDD51FF99829EF225D95FFCB8B16A0A7.2022-02-10-letter-to-wh-on-lubchenco-scientific-integrity.pdf\">letter<\/a>\u00a0that President Joe Biden \u201cconsider whether Dr. Lubchenco\u2019s leading role in the Administration\u2019s scientific integrity efforts undermines public confidence in future policy decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an editor at PNAS, Dr. Lubchenco demonstrated a clear disregard for rules meant to prevent conflicts of interest in publishing peer-reviewed studies,\u201d the letter states. \u201cNow, Dr. Lubchenco is playing a leading role in developing and overseeing this Administration\u2019s best practices for scientific integrity. Her violation of one of the core tenets of scientific integrity makes her current leadership role very troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, Lubchenco had not been relieved of her position in the Biden administration. Lubchenco remained active on Twitter promoting the Biden administration\u2019s policy agenda Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the NAS nor the White House responded to a Daily caller News Foundation request for comment.<\/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. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House climate aide Jane Lubchenco was sanctioned by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today for violating its Code of Conduct, Axios reported Tuesday.Lubchenco, who is the deputy director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1181,"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-1609492","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\/1609492","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\/1181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609492\/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=1609492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}