On a variety of scientific and medical issues, from childhood lead poisoning to reproductive health to toxic mercury pollution, federal government science is being manipulated, distorted, and suppressed at an unprecedented scale.
Medical leaders are speaking out against this political interference in science and calling for change.
Scientific Integrity in Policy Making
Click here to read the statement and learn how to keep informed about efforts to defend science from political interference.
Sampling of Prominent Medical Signatories
Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology
Paul Berg, Stanford University School of Medicine
Eric Chivian, Harvard Medical School
Johann Deisenhofer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Renato Dulbecco , Salk Institute
Paul M. Doty , Harvard University
Gerald D. Fischbach , Columbia University Medical School
Lynn R. Goldman, John Hopkins School of Public Health
Roger Guillemin, Salk Institute
Eric R. Kandel, Columbia University
Arthur Kornberg , Stanford University School of Medicine
Paul A. Marks, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Joseph E. Murray, Harvard Medical School
Marshall Nirenberg, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
George E. Palade, University of California, San Diego
Anthony Robbins, Tufts University School of Medicine
Allan Rosenfield, Columbia University School of Public Health
Felicia Stewart, University of California, San Francisco
Joan A. Steitz, Yale University School of Medicine
E. Donnall Thomas, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University
Harold E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Related resources
2024 Annual Report
Resources for Federal Scientists
A Path Forward
