Republican Lawmakers Suggest Cutting Off Funding for National Academies

[muriel_volestrangler]

The White House signaled interest early this month in investigating whether the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine should be suspended or debarred from federal funding, in response to a letter from 11 Republican lawmakers criticizing NASEM, particularly the climate science chapter of its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows posted an article about the letter on X, adding, “The National Academies have weaponized tax dollars against President Trump for far too long. It’s time to end their contracts.” Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought responded, “On it.”

The letter argues that the climate science chapter of the reference manual “violates Gold Standard Science” because the peer review process did not include scientists with differing views on climate science and because its authors and funders had conflicts of interest. It heavily echoes letters sent in January and March by 27 Republican state attorneys general who successfully campaigned to remove the chapter from an online version of the manual.
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The chapter remains available on the Academies’ website, with National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt rebuffing the request for its removal. The attorneys general then turned to the administration, suggesting that agencies consider suspending or debarring NASEM from federal funding, and that congressional committees investigate NASEM as part of their oversight or appropriations processes.

https://www.aip.org/fyi/republican-lawmakers-suggest-cutting-off-funding-for-national-academies

So while the climate wreckers already succeeded in getting the science removed from the manual for judges, that wasn't enough for them; they now want to wreck science, engineering and medicine in general, because the scientists insist on hosting real climate science.

This is American Lysenkoism. See
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/remembering-lysenko-when-ideology-and-science-meet/780C8565F8EDD870699611B70B922F9A
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/sep/11/research.highereducation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism