This post was originally published on the blog of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, with co-authors Jules Barbati-Dajches and Joseph Reed.
Over a span of two decades, a federal scientific integrity apparatus was built, improved, and stress-tested to protect federal science activities from political interference, safeguard the freedom and independence of federal scientists, and allow the US science and technology enterprise to thrive. Federal agencies established scientific integrity policies, installed officials to oversee the application of these agency safeguards, and built a culture of scientific integrity through training, integration, process, and policy. But the second Trump
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