Show threadpetersuber4d ago

2/ Three highlights:

* In general, with few exceptions, funders could not pay #APCs. § 200.461. (This decides the question still under consideration at the #NIH, and applies the answer to NIH and all other covered agencies.)

* Grants could be terminated "mid-award" for "discretionary reasons" including decisions by political appointees that the grants no longer serve agency priorities. § 200.340.

* Grants "must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." They must not encourage racial preferences or illegal immigration, deny that sex is binary, or promote "anti-American values". When multiple grant applications are equally strong, "preference…should be given to institutions with lower indirect cost rates." Grantees must commit to follow existing guidance on #GoldStandardScience. "Senior [political] appointees…must not ministerially ratify or routinely defer to the recommendations of others [like peer reviewers], but must instead use their independent judgment when evaluating Federal award proposals." § 200.205.

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 25
Trump’s “#GoldStandardScience” Leaves Washington
What’s happening with #executiveorder is not gold standard at all. It is a political strategy that undermines #science
#Alabama is pushing forward #SB71 and #HB162, that would constrain state’s ability to adopt protective #environmental and #publichealth standards.
Trump’s “gold standard science” #EO was never about improving scientific rigor, it was about inserting political judgment into scientific decision-making.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/trumps-gold-standard-science-leaves
Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” Leaves Washington

And shows up in Alabama

SciLight
Dorothy BishopAug 27, 2025
Part 2 of blogpost on the hypocrisy behind Gold Standard Science
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/08/gold-standard-science-isnt-gold_27.html
I'm curious to know if anyone has come across NIH's "Autism Data Science Initiative" - which popped up very briefly before closing to applications.
#autism #NIH #GoldStandardScience
Gold standard science isn't gold standard if it's applied selectively. Part 2: Research on causes of autism

In my previous blogpost , I discussed why many scientists can't take seriously the lofty ideals expressed in Trump's plans for Gold Standard...

Michael BuschAug 20, 2025

Yet again, USA:

Managers do not have to follow illegal executive orders.

QT AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org‬
2025 August 20

The Administration’s #GoldStandardScience order undermines research integrity & threatens public trust in science.

Read AGU President Brandon Jones’ latest #FromtheProw, & stand with us:
https://fromtheprow.agu.org/all-thats-gold-does-not-glitter/

https://bsky.app/profile/agu.org/post/3lwtjwjufta2h

All That’s Gold Does Not Glitter

The executive order on "Gold Standard Science" has been met with rightful outrage and grave concern across our Earth and space sciences community.

From The Prow
Show threadBrad RosenheimAug 8, 2025

I mean, let's get real. This IS what they mean by Gold Standard Science, amirite?

#GoldStandard
#FederalFunding
#GoldStandardScience

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jun 27, 2025
https://Climate.gov Didn't Fit Trump's "#GoldStandard"
For nearly fifteen years, https://climate.gov was #NOAA’s #climate #science crown jewel.
The site embodied precisely the virtues the new EO trumpets as “#GoldStandardScience”: reproducible, transparent, clearly communicating error and uncertainty, and subject to peer review.
Yet on May 31, the contract that funded the portal’s editorial team lapsed, and on June 24, the standalone domain vanished.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/climategov-didnt-fit-trumps-gold
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jun 3, 2025
Trump’s “#GoldStandard #Science” is already wearing thin
#FDA Commissioner #MartyMakary was on one of weekend news programs, where he was asked about decision to limit pregnant people's access to #COVIDvaccines. Host mentioned that aggregation of studies involving a total of over 1.8M had shown #vaccine was safe and effective.
Makary dismissed all that data because it wasn't "#GoldStandardScience," perfectly illustrating how phrase can be used as a tool to mislead public.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/analysis-trumps-gold-standard-science-is-already-wearing-thin/
Analysis: Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” is already wearing thin

FDA head uses great-sounding science standards to dismiss COVID vaccine benefits.

Ars Technica
Luke DruryMay 30, 2025

Sadly easy to see that this emphasis on "gold-standard science" by the US administration is just the latest and more plausible-sounding version of "Do your own research" - a blatant attempt to use the inherent scepticism of genuine science as a weapon against science itself. No good can come from anti-science ideologues cherry-picking ideas from research integrity and taking them out of context.

https://www.cos.io/about/news/cos-statement-on-restoring-gold-standard-science-executive-order

#ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #GoldStandardScience

COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order

The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally. Ordinarily, such prominent promotion of these practices would be cause for COS to celebrate advancement of its mission. Unfortunately, their application in this Executive Order is counterproductive for open science’s purpose to accelerate discovery, advance treatments, and create knowledge.