From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: “OSTP seeks information to help improve the effectiveness of Federal scientific integrity policies to enhance public trust in science.” Once I stopped spitting up my coffee, I came up with 10 principles based on my 30+ years of working in the sewer of government science that I submitted to OSTP. Please support Junkcience.com!
OSTP should adopt the following 10 basic principles:
- Stop government-funded scientists from lying.
- Stop covering up when lying and or mistakes occur.
- Minimize/stop taxpayer funding of scientific research.
- Make all taxpayer-funded research data and all taxpayer-funded studies available free-of-charge on the Internet.
- Require that federal agencies clearly distinguish and explain science policy vs. actual science knowledge in all discussions of science.
- Require that government-funded scientists and agencies respond in detail to specific criticism of their research and scientific claims.
- Require that federal scientific advisory committees be balanced in terms of views, interests and backgrounds.
- Bar taxpayer-funded researchers and their colleagues from serving on advisory committees or otherwise participating in peer review of their own, their colleagues’, their institution’s and their funding agency’s research.
- Strictly enforce the Nuremberg Code when human research is conducted.
- Conduct an annual review of the actual costs and benefits of taxpayer-funded research and report the results to the public.
Agree. This reminded me of something I learned as a midshipman — “avoid even the appearance of impropriety”
18 U.S. Code § 208(b)(3) has an exemption from the financial conflict-of-interest prohibition for advisory board appointees when “the official responsible for the employee’s appointment, after review of the financial disclosure report filed by the individual pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, certifies in writing that the need for the individual’s services outweighs the potential for a conflict of interest created by the financial interest involved.” I wonder if these certifications are in the public record, and how much scrutiny the appointees actually received. Can recommendations made absent such a certification be voided?
Amending this section would be a good way for Congress to make an impact on this topic.
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In response:
1. Stop lying.
2. Stop lying.
3. “follow the science” should ACTUALLY follow the science. The false agenda of mandating masks that are PROVEN ineffective against a virus from multiple studies is the classic example.
4. Stop lying about being able to control the weather/climate, like some later day King Canutes.
5. Stop lying about CO2 being the driver of global temperature.
6. Stop lying about the mRNA experimental inoculations (that are NOT “vaccines” by definition) and their supposed effectiveness.
7. Stop lying about PM2.5 so you can increase your fiefdoms while stealing tax money from other good causes.
And finally – stop lying! Even the low information types are catching on. That’s how bad your lying is.