The Trump administration intends to submit scientific research conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency to political review, NPR reports. It’s a move that could pollute the EPA’s scientific integrity, and suppress science that doesn’t align with the reigning political ideology.
This new vetting process is still nebulous, Doug Ericksen, a state senator from Washington who is heading up EPA communications during the transition, told NPR in an interview. Ericksen said only that publications and presentations might be internally reviewed before they’re released.
“We’ll take a look at what’s happening so that the voice coming from the EPA is one that’s going to reflect the new administration,” Ericksen told NPR. Calling scientific results a “voice,” and requiring them to “reflect the new administration” is a chilling perversion of the scientific process.
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- TV's Frink
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- Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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- 25-Jan-2017, 3:04 PM