In the decree signed not long ago by President Obama, he seeks to fulfill his election promise and ensure that the administration makes decisions based on scientific advice and using peer review * it will be forbidden to distort scientific findings to bias decisions
It turns out that there are also politicians who maintain Election promises.
Document from the White House website: Fact sheet about the President's Memorandum for Scientific Integrity
"Today more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival on Earth, and our security and prosperity as a nation. It is time to put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as a world leader in science and technology." President Barack Obama, March 10, 2009.
On March 10, 2009, in addition to signing a presidential order freezing federal funding for stem cell research, President Obama signed a presidential memorandum dealing with scientific integrity. The memorandum will help implement the president's main promises in the election campaign regarding the scientific policy aimed at restoring scientific integrity in the decision-making process.
Science and technology are essential for achieving a wide range of national goals: an engine for economic growth and job creation; will enable Americans to live longer and healthier lives; developing energy sources to reduce the US's dependence on imported oil; protecting the environment for future generations; Strengthening national security and internal security and more
Understanding the potential of science and technology in helping to achieve these goals requires that the decision-making process in government regarding public policy be guided by the most objective and accurate scientific advice possible. The public must trust the advice, and also be sure that government officials will not conceal or distort the scientific findings relevant to policy selection.
Accordingly, the President has given the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) the authority to ensure the highest level of integrity in all aspects of all government departments dealing with science and technology aspects.
Within 120 days, the OSTP manager must develop a strategy that will ensure that:
* The selection of scientists and technology experts for scientific and technological positions at all levels of government will be based on the scientific and technological knowledge of these people, as well as on letters of recommendation and experience.
* The various agencies will provide the public with access to scientific or technological findings as well as the conclusions considered or reached based on the decision-making process.
* The agencies will use scientific and technological information subject to an established scientific process such as peer review.
* The agencies should install rules and processes that will ensure the integrity of the scientific process within the agencies, including protection of whistleblowers.
As I recall, the Bush administration has been accused more than once of making decisions that are contrary to scientific positions on issues such as stem cells, abortions, global warming (whose validity was questioned) and more. In some of the cases, it was said that people in the administration took care to distort scientific findings so that they could choose the option that matched their worldview.
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You were freed by one of the mantras. Unfortunately, the system fundamentally suspects any response with too many links as a spam response, and forwards it to a manual review, but in the end one of us gets to it and takes care of it.
It looks like another conspiracy story especially in light of the fact that GM is still trying to reach a satisfactory technology:
http://www.businessinsider.com/gms-electric-car-battery-research-operation-2009-3
It seems to me that Itzik (another) meant this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
A response that I tried to send under the first article, which includes several links, has been delayed for many, many hours and has not been published, can I please check what is happening with it?
The other Itzik:
I'm curious where you got the story about GM from.
Where we are and where America is, it's as if we live in the third world compared to them. Who will give us such an Obama.
The Ethiopians need to be nurtured, maybe one day Obama will come out of them like this for us as well.
The first thing is to eliminate the entire parliament, on a scientific basis
Obama is good for scientists
interesting. Does this mean that there will be no emotional or self-interested acceptance?
Will they scientifically come to the conclusion that a welfare state is better for its residents? Or do advertisements and computer games have a negative effect on children's minds? Or do corporations aim to profit at any cost, and this price is at the expense of human beings? Or is oil more polluting than anything else?
But but but the United States already knows all this. They know everything better than anyone. They just use it for their convenience. Will it change?
In 2000 GM produced pure electric cars with similar performance to any gasoline powered car, in 2003 they destroyed all the cars including the ones that were sold, because it bothered the oil dealers. Will it change now?
What does this document even mean?!