The steps taken by these departments and agencies are a big step forward to ensuring scientific integrity across the Federal government.
High standards of scientific integrity are essential because nothing is more damaging to any scientific discipline than the promotion of opinion as equivalent to fact.
He lacks scientific integrity to discuss matters beyond his expertise.
In order to maintain the momentum, OSTP Director John Holdren today is requesting that every covered department and agency provide its draft scientific integrity policy within 90 days from today.
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Federal departments and agencies are making good progress on the development of scientific integrity policies, as initially called for by OSTP director John Holdren in a December 2010 Executive Branch memorandum.
There is a consensus that the cluelessness of journalists like Kristof has not just wildly distorted the actual scientific evidence on BPA, it is contributing to a more general and broader assault on scientific integrity.
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In addition to providing consultations to individual agencies and maintaining a website with scientific integrity resources, OSTP hosted an interagency workshop in March to help executive agencies and departments craft their scientific integrity policies.
Departments and agencies across the Federal government submitted to OSTP their latest and, in some cases, final, drafts of their scientific integrity policies this past week, in compliance with a deadline I set in October for completion of final or draft-final versions for review.
At its core, the scandal was as much about the integrity of the scientific process as it was about the quality of the science.
The event included presentations by indigenous peoples of case studies where community-based knowledge complements and advances current scientific understandings, while sustaining cultural integrity and fulfilling local needs.
Under the Application Integrity Policy, the most recent action, the FDA has stopped all scientific review of any new or pending drug approval applications containing data from the Paonta Sahib plant.
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