US Congress · Republicans · Donald Trump · Ars Technica
Similarly, members of Congress threatened to investigate the National Academies when it organized an updated climate report
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Founded during the US Civil War to provide advice to the government, the National Academies of Science have become one of the most prestigious scientific organizations.
Key facts
- One of these was the production of the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
- Founded during the US Civil War to provide advice to the government, the National Academies of Science have become one of the most prestigious scientific organizations
- Yesterday, a deeply reported story from Politico explained the breakdown between the National Academies and Republican politicians
- In public, the National Academies has been circumspect in its approach to the overt hostility toward science displayed by the Trump administration
Summary
Those reports have not been afraid to weigh in on matters of public controversy and risk offending powerful groups, which it has managed to do without losing the respect of the governmental organizations that fund these reports. The National Academies is preparing an expert report on attribution of weather events to human-driven climate change, and fossil fuel companies are worried it will lead to findings of liability in the many cases where those companies are being sued. In public, the National Academies has been circumspect in its approach to the overt hostility toward science displayed by the Trump administration. The problem, apparently, was projects that were started during previous administrations.