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June 5, 2025

Fool’s Gold: The Trump Administration’s New Executive Order Is a Bad-Faith Attack on Science

On the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day, the Trump administration released an Executive Order (EO), ostensibly meant to improve the science used to inform federal policy. As my colleagues have pointed out, that’s absolutely not what it does. It’s important to unpack what’s really hidden under the layers of misleading text. A dubious premise The […]

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

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