EPA Fires Members Of Science Advisory Board

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/epa-fires-members-science-advisory-board

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fired members of a scientific advisory board yesterday.

The agency quietly forced out some members of the Board of Scientific Counselors just weeks after leaders told them their tenure would be renewed, said Robert Richardson, an ecological economist at Michigan State University and one of those dismissed.

The board is tasked with reviewing the work of EPA scientists and provides feedback that can be a powerful voice in shaping the agency's future research. The cuts "just came out of nowhere," Richardson said.

"The role that science has played in the agency in the past, this step is a significant step in a different direction," he said today. "Anecdotally, based on what we know about the administrator, I think it will be science that will appear to be friendlier to industry, the fossil fuel industry, the chemical industry, and I think it will be science that marginalizes climate change science."

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Watch, Trump will probably anoint Melania and Baron as heads of the Science Advisory Board for the EPA next

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I can't believe scientists are being persecuted. 

We need a new Renaissance. 

Sadly nothing will be done until the real consequences arrive and most of us will not even be her to see them. 

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If you can't see a problem, it doesn't exist! 

 

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Waiting for Neil DeGrasse Tyson to eventually raid the white house tbh  

Science while often wrong or incomplete and lacking context, is still on an honest pursuit for the truth, and that scares an administration that is fearful of the truth. Still, I have hope that they will prevail. We won't go gentle into that good night.