Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla

The White House released an executive order called Restoring Gold Standard Science on Friday evening .

The order mimics the language of an active reform movement in science to increase rigor and transparency of research.

Instead of being about open science, it grants administration-aligned political appointees the power to designate any research as scientific misconduct based on their own “judgment”.

Colette Delawalla is a PhD candidate at Emory University and executive director of Stand Up for Science .

Victor Ambros is a 2024 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine at the Chan Medical School, University of Massachusetts .

Carl Bergstrom is professor of biology at the University of Washington .