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Maintaining #ScientificIntegrity in a hostile environment-- written for scientists by scientists .
Classification and responses to threat levels are not only useful for academics but also helpful for the rest of us to understand how hard choices must be made in arduous circumstances.
''The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S.''
There are a couple of Skeptical Science alumni in the author pool.
ZenodoThe Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic BackslidingThe Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S. To this end, it sets out how autocracies often follow a common playbook, built around the “3 Ps”: populism, polarization, and post-truth. Leaders present themselves as voices of “the people” against “corrupt elites”, inflame societal divisions, and undermine facts to avoid accountability. This leads to a cascade of dangers for scholarship, including censorship, restrictions on funding and research collaboration, and even violence. The Trump administration serves as a contemporary example, with policies that curtail international scientific cooperation, revoke research grants, and suppress studies related to public health, climate change and minority issues. Because open inquiry and dissent are central to science and academia—qualities antithetical to authoritarian control—academia is often among the first targets of autocrats. To help scholars resist authoritarian developments, the handbook highlights both historic and contemporary measures aimed at attacking scholars, their institutional environments, and their scholarship. The handbook also sets out a framework for action based on personal risk level—low, medium, high, or extreme. This is designed to help scholars think about their own risk and purposefully choose actions in line with it. The handbook considers tools for enhancing digital safety and highlights the importance of ongoing documentation, preserving imperilled data, and creating distributed archives as a defence against erasure. It also calls on scholars to tell their stories—publicly or anonymously—to inspire others, maintain accountability and preserve a historical record. Accompanying the handbook is a living wiki that will continue to incorporate new developments and provide updates on global efforts by scholars to push back against authoritarianism and safeguard the democratic foundations that enable free inquiry.
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"Bak-Coleman and others say the reformers should have seen that their claims and concerns could be weaponized by antiscience movements, and done more to prevent that. 'The writing was on the wall in huge letters,' says Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol, who points to attempts by the tobacco industry to introduce 'sound science' legislation and sponsor 'research integrity' symposia as early as the 1990s.
Without overenthusisam progress arguably may be impossible, but hype also often leads to fits and starts.
Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices.
A new tool reveals the alleged cheating committed for years by the chemist, who was suspiciously prolific.
With his 11 studies eliminated by publishers, he is already “in the top 0.1% of the most retracted authors of all time”.
El País · Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices.
The MAHA report, promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claims to rely on “gold-standard” science — but a close look reveals:
Nonexistent studies cited Broken links & wrong authors Misrepresented conclusions
Instead of offering solid ground for public health reform, the report exposes cracks in scientific rigor and accountability. 
This is not just a paperwork issue — it’s a trust issue in how we communicate research to shape national health policy.
AI generated? AI hallucinations?
How can leaders, researchers, and the public rebuild confidence in evidence-based policy when foundational claims are riddled with errors?
#HealthLeadership #ScientificIntegrity #PolicyMaking #PublicTrust #EvidenceBasedPractice
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
NOTUS · The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t ExistThe Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
"... just two countries (Russia and the United States) have for climate researchers and stakeholders worldwide demonstrate how fundamental international efforts are to addressing the climate crisis. In response, scientists and legal groups have called for action, initiating legal processes to ensure data access, for example, or calls for open repositories to safeguard data critical for climate research, action and adaptation."
NatureData under duress - Nature Climate ChangeClimate change and climate action are socially and politically divisive topics in many countries. In addition to contributing to political disparity, climate research is also affected by political context, with consequences not only for scientists but for society as well.
Just attended a workshop to do with safely maintaining #ScientificIntegrity in peculiar circumstances.
Where the f--k are all the _Americans_??
A couple, yeah, but the main effort is coming from others.
We're going to lean on everybody else? Think again. Total dependency isn't going to work.
"I asked political appointees at #NOAA to sign an affirmation that they read and fully understood their obligations under the agency’s #scientificintegrity policy. That was probably just too much.
Soon after, I had a response back from the #acting NOAA chief of staff…says something like, Thank you very much for your response. You’re no longer the acting chief scientist…"
Mother JonesI paid the price for speaking out about “Sharpiegate.” Scientists can’t be silent now, either."In elections, you elect policy. You don't elect science."
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3/ This affects not only CDC papers but any research involving CDC scientists. These terms must be stripped from articles before publication, which has raised serious concerns about how this will impact medical research and our understanding of health disparities. #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchImpact
Not only is this move patently anti-science, it's also a manifest danger to public safety.
"'While Dr. Jacobs has relevant expertise and credentials, he has already proven he’s unfit to lead #NOAA by failing to uphold scientific integrity at the agency,' Rachel Cleetus, the policy director for the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/climate/trump-neil-jacobs-noaa-sharpiegate.html
The New York Times · Trump Rehires Neil Jacobs, Former NOAA Chief Involved in ‘Sharpiegate’
Attack on #Science – #InspectorsGeneral Play an Important Role in Maintaining #ScientificIntegrity. They were Just Fired
If federal employees, including federal scientists, are concerned about waste, fraud, or abuse of actions and policies, they can raise concerns to IG’s office. For scientific integrity policy, if a scientist is being censored or told to manipulate their scientific work to meet political goals, their first stop should be raising the concern/
https://scilight.substack.com/p/attack-on-science-inspectors-general
SciLight · Attack on Science – Inspectors General Play an Important Role in Maintaining Scientific Integrity. Trump Just Fired Them
"Trump Targeted Scientists in His First Term. This Time, They’re Prepared."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/climate/trump-government-scientists.html
Well-thought out, given the power imbalance between political appointees and govt scientists. Some of these protections will be easy for Trumpists to repeal. Some will be hard.
The New York Times · Trump Targeted Scientists in His First Term. This Time, They’re Prepared.
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[After the #Trump hurricane Dorian incident,]… #NOAA updated their policy…said NOAA’s #ScientificIntegrity officer. The #policy includes guidelines on how #scientists should conduct themselves, & asks them to articulate their findings openly & clearly to the #public. It establishes that “credible allegations of #fabrication, #falsification, #plagiarism, & #interference w/or undue #influence on accurate public reporting of #science” can result in “personnel actions” & referral to the IG’s office.
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While helpful, the provision won’t be a panacea, said Tim Whitehouse, the exec dir of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility [ #PEER ], a nonprofit…, which helped advise #AFGE on the #ScientificIntegrity language.
“It will be impossible to fully #Trump-proof any agency or protect any #scientist if Trump wins a new term & either the #House or #Senate is in #Republican control,” Whitehouse said. “Then there will be absolutely no meaningful #oversight.”
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At the #EPA, the new #ScientificIntegrity provision is part of a 4-yr contract w/the agency. The provision ensures that #workers’ complaints will be assessed by an #independent investigator, rather than a #political appointee. While any new president could quickly transform policies around scientific integrity through new executive orders, the #union #contract provision is one advocates had urged as a way to make the #protections harder to undo w/o a #legal fight.
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…At #NOAA, where a 2020 investigation found that agency leaders violated its #ScientificIntegrity policy after #Trump showed a doctored hurricane forecast map, stricter standards took effect in March. A similar #policy will soon be extended to the #Commerce Dept, including to the #political appointees whose #violations were detailed in the 2020 probe.
~385 citations over the past 14 years. Presumably some will have been of material impact to "progress."
It seems as though we mostly have the parts in place to acively notify investigators who are the victim of a duff publication. Info in #CrossRef could substantially get the job done.
Perhaps #RetractionWatch already does this?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2024.0463?af=R