EPA Scientists' Work May Face 'Case By Case' Review By Trump Team, Official Says

[highplainsdem]

Source: NPR

Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency who want to publish or present their scientific findings likely will need to have their work reviewed on a "case by case basis" before it can be disseminated, according to a spokesman for the agency's transition team.

In an interview Tuesday evening with NPR, Doug Ericksen, the head of communications for the Trump administration's EPA transition team, said that during the transition period, he expects scientists will undergo an unspecified internal vetting process before sharing their work outside the agency.

"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.

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Any review would directly contradict the agency's current scientific integrity policy, which was published in 2012. It prohibits "all EPA employees, including scientists, managers and other Agency leadership from suppressing, altering, or otherwise impeding the timely release of scientific findings or conclusions."

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Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/511572169/epa-scientists-work-may-face-case-by-case-review-by-trump-team-official-says

[neeksgeek]

1. There's another word for this sort of thing.

Instead of review, it should just be called what it is: censorship.

[Freethinker65]

2. Gives a whole new meaning to the term "political science"

Science is not about surpressing data that does not fit your hypothesis

[2naSalit]

3. Here it comes, watch out...

"... so that the voice coming from the EPA is one that's going to reflect the new administration."

[DODI]

4. Scientists March on Washington

Keep on eye on this - and then we need to support them in every city! This administration is terrifying!

http://www.scientistsmarchonwashington.com/2017/01/what-is-scientists-march-on-washington.html

[MBS]

6. I'm in. n/t

[Crash2Parties]

16. The hat knitting pattern is *really* complex...

[MBS]

5. This is unprecedented.

This is not America, this is not normal, this is wrong, and it has to be stopped.

[etherealtruth]

7. This is unreal ... I feel like I have stepped into some kind of alternate universe

unfortunately, I am still here and apparently facts have been replaced by "alternate facts" (ie whatever made up sh*t tRump and his deranged vulgar band of lackeys want them to be)

[ffr]

11. You're not alone. But people don't want to know of their impending doom.

Ultimately.

They want to hear nice pleasantries, knowing full well that what they are hearing is censored lies about things that impact them and their families directly.



The wrecking ball KGOP is winning for Putin.

[Botany]

8. Science is .....

science
[sahy-uh ns]
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noun
1.
a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws:
the mathematical sciences.
2.
systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3.
any of the branches of natural or physical science.
4.
systematized knowledge in general.
5.
knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
6.
a particular branch of knowledge.
7.
skill, especially reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.

[IronLionZion]

9. Weaken it until they can simply eliminate the whole agency

same with Education, Energy, CFPB, and anything else that's useful. USDA, FDA, etc.

[Yavin4]

10. Big Blue states like CA, NY, and Mass need to pick up these EPA scientists

and let them do their work for the states. If the Fed govt wants to get out of the science business, so be it. Science and progress will continue without the US govt.

[ElementaryPenguin]

13. An excellent suggestion!

[ffr]

12. As said above, censorship. This is not an American value.

This is a Eastern Block tactic to control.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. "Lysenkoism was a political campaign against genetics and science-based agriculture ...

... conducted by Trofim Lysenko, his followers and Soviet authorities. Lysenko served as the director of the Soviet Union's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964. The term Lysenkoism can also be used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.[1]

The pseudo-scientific ideas of Lysenkoism built on Lamarckian concepts of the heritability of acquired characteristics.[2] Lysenko's theory rejected Mendelian inheritance and the concept of the "gene"; it departed from Darwinian evolutionary theory by rejecting natural selection.[3] Proponents falsely claimed to have discovered, among many other things, that rye could transform into wheat and wheat into barley, that weeds could spontaneously transmute into food grains, and that "natural cooperation" was observed in nature as opposed to "natural selection".[3] Lysenkoism promised extraordinary advances in breeding and in agriculture that never came about.

Joseph Stalin supported the campaign. More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were sent to prison, fired,[4] or executed as a part of this campaign - instigated by Lysenko to suppress his scientific opponents. The president of the Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, was sent to prison and died there, while scientific research in the field of genetics was effectively destroyed until the death of Stalin in 1953.[3] Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines was also negatively affected or banned.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

[highplainsdem]

15. More from ProPubllica - vetting applies to all public meetings/presentations:

https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-team-at-epa-vetting-controversial-public-meetings-and-presentations