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Abstract:
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In his first week in office, President Biden issued the Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking. The memo put into motion a series of groundbreaking actions taken by the Administration to investigate, assess, and improve scientific integrity policies, practices, and culture in Federal departments and agencies. A 57 member Task Force with diverse representation from 29 Federal agencies was convened under the National Science and Technology Council to conduct this work. After countless hours of deliberations, round-tables, public engagement activities, and document reviews, the committee produced a first-of-its-kind report on its findings, which was published on January 11th, 2022. The report articulates five key principles that agencies may use to bolster the integrity of the science they conduct, communicate, and use. These principles include: valuing dissent in scientific discourse; applicability of scientific integrity to the whole of government; bringing scientists and policy-makers together in the decision-making process; promoting transparency in the sharing of science; and, having accountability for violations of scientific integrity. In this talk, we describe how the report may guide scientific integrity policies, practices, and culture at the 13 principal statistical agencies in the Federal government (and indeed well beyond).
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