Biden Issues Executive Order and Memorandum on Science Policy and Scientific Integrity

Well well well, it was Presidential Policy not to lie about scientific things and what is the first thing the CDC did - well hide the data and lie about it's import.

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“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” –
A. Solzhenitsyn

Is Lysenko available to be the Chief Science Officer?…

Good lies in the name of racial and environmental justice are just fine, though.

Only science that counts is government science, comrades. We declare it to the science of the land.

We can’t withstand 3 more years of this stuff.

“Biden” and “integrity” never belong in the same sentence.

The very nature of science is supposed to be analysis/introspection, self regulating. The basic steps of the scientific method include open publication of results so other scientists can verify. It’s the worlds first and only legitimate fact checking organization.

The fact that he is doing this tells me—
1. Science is suffering or sick
2. More likely he is using this as an excuse to gain influence over science (since he is a doddering old man I’d say it’s deep state around him)

Here is the actual executive order

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish an advisory council on science, technology, and innovation, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. As directed in the Presidential Memorandum of January 27, 2021 (Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking), it is the policy of my Administration to make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data. Officials and employees across my Administration shall seek from scientists, engineers, and other experts the best available scientific and technological information and advice.

Sec. 2. Establishment. (a) There is hereby established the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

(b) The PCAST shall be composed of not more than 26 members. The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (the “Science Advisor”) shall be a member of the PCAST. The Science Advisor, if also serving as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, may designate the U.S. Chief Technology Officer as a member. The remaining members shall be distinguished individuals and representatives from sectors outside of the Federal Government appointed by the President. These non-Federal members shall have diverse perspectives and expertise in science, technology, and innovation.

(c) The Science Advisor shall serve as a Co-Chair of the PCAST. The President shall also designate at least one, but not more than two, of the non-Federal members to serve as a Co‑Chair, or Co-Chairs, of the PCAST with the Science Advisor. The Science Advisor may designate up to three Vice Chairs of the PCAST from among the non-Federal members of the PCAST, to support the Co-Chairs in the leadership and organization of the PCAST.

Sec. 3. Functions. (a) The PCAST shall advise the President on matters involving policy affecting science, technology, and innovation, as well as on matters involving scientific and technological information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the economy, worker empowerment, education, energy, the environment, public health, national and homeland security, racial equity, and other topics.

(b) The PCAST shall meet regularly and shall:

(i) respond to requests from the President or the Science Advisor for information, analysis, evaluation, or advice;

(ii) solicit information and ideas from a broad range of stakeholders, including the research community; the private sector; universities; national laboratories; State, local, and Tribal governments; foundations; and nonprofit organizations;

(iii) serve as the advisory committee identified in section 101(b) of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-194), as amended (15 U.S.C. 5511(b)), in which capacity the PCAST shall be known as the President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee; and

(iv) serve as the advisory panel identified in section 4 of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (Public Law 108-153), as amended (15 U.S.C. 7503), in which capacity the PCAST shall be known as the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel.

(c) The PCAST shall provide advice from the non-Federal sector to the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in response to requests from the NSTC.

Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The heads of executive departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide the PCAST with information concerning scientific and technological matters when requested by the PCAST Co-Chairs and as required for the purpose of carrying out the PCAST’s functions.

(b) In consultation with the Science Advisor, the PCAST is authorized to create standing subcommittees and ad hoc groups, including technical advisory groups, to assist the PCAST and provide preliminary information directly to the PCAST.

(c) In order to allow the PCAST to provide advice and analysis regarding classified matters, the Science Advisor may request that members of the PCAST, its standing subcommittees, or ad hoc groups, who do not hold a current clearance for access to classified information, receive security clearance and access determinations pursuant to Executive Order 12968 of August 2, 1995 (Access to Classified Information), as amended, or any successor order.

(d) The Department of Energy shall provide such funding and administrative and technical support as the PCAST may require, to the extent permitted by law and within existing appropriations.

(e) Members of the PCAST shall serve without any compensation for their work on the PCAST, but may receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in the government service (5 U.S.C. 5701–5707).

(f) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), may apply to the PCAST, any functions of the President under that Act, except that of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed by the Secretary of Energy, in accordance with the guidelines and procedures established by the Administrator of General Services.

Sec. 5. Termination. The PCAST shall terminate 2 years from the date of this order unless extended by the President.

Sec. 6. Revocation. Executive Order 13895 of October 22, 2019 (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology), is hereby revoked.

Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 27, 2021.

“to make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data” and to insulate scientific decision-making and the work of federal scientists from “improper political interference.”

Haha. Sounds like an edict from an autocrat

I would say this is a set up for Mail In Voting in the fall.

What was the science on masks? What good did knowing the science on masks do anybody as they were mandated anyway. What was the science on viruses and how they acted and progresses? And they shut down the economy anyway. People are still out there following fake political “science” . I saw them ten minutes ago at the bagel store in their idiotic masks, some 40 percent of the crowd. The Democrats are going to tell you what’s science and you’re gonna like it.

Thanks, that clarifies it. Sounds more like an advisory group and less a control one.

Translation: Establish a political body with handpicked scientists who are to decide what's true and what's not.

Remember, Liberal policies are always named opposite of what they actually are.

Any politician who feels they HAVE to issue such things have obviously been tampering with the “science” they spew on people who distrust them.

It’s like a husband who, all of a sudden wants to draw up a - “I do NOT cheat on my wife” declaration.. (after dozens of spent condoms have been found in his car..)

Sounds like an edict from an autocrat

DC is the Vatican and all dissenters are Copernicus. And yet it moves.

“Restoring trust in govt...........” LOL! Oh, okay.

The word of FauXi is to be taken as absolute truth, no matter how many times it changes over time.

If you disagree, you are to be arrested as an enemy of the State.

Surprised Fauci is not in charge of this.

Maybe IF Trump becomes president he can ‘tweak’ the EO by adding: “any scientist that contributes information that we base our decisions on can not receive any form of Federal Money.”