Delivering Science in a Crisis
September 25, 2020
“We find ongoing reports and incidents of the politicization of science, particularly the overriding of evidence and advice from public health officials and derision of government scientists, to be alarming,” two leaders in science and medicine said in a statement regarding the US response to the coronavirus pandemic, a day after President Trump said he might reject FDA’s proposed tighter standards for vaccines. Earlier in Issues, cosigners Marcia McNutt of the National Academy of Sciences and Victor Dzau of the National Academy of Medicine discussed (here and here) the crisis and how science and medicine can help meet its challenges.