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Trump’s plan would make government stupid

Cuts to science advisory panels for federal agencies will haunt the United States long after the current administration finishes, says Gretchen T. Goldman.
  1. Gretchen T. Goldman

    1. Gretchen T. Goldman is research director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington DC.

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Political leaders in most functioning democracies have established checks and laws to ensure that their countries are guided by knowledge. On 14 June, President Donald Trump took one of his biggest steps yet to dismantle an important part of this system in the United States: an executive order that federal agencies should cut the number of advisory panels by at least one-third.

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Nature 570, 417 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01961-6

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