Liz Ginexi
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Every discretionary grant will now be required to go through approval by a political appointee who will determine whether or not that particular grant demonstrably advances the president's policy priorities.
Just to tell the story, I was at a science conference last week when this dropped and I downloaded this 400-page PDF document to my laptop.
And while I was in the science sessions, I was scanning through it quickly and highlighting key sections that I thought were highly objectionable and kept highlighting it.
And after a while of doing this, I thought my head was going to explode.
So I tried to talk about it with some of my scientific colleagues and they said, what's OMB?
Who's Russell Vogt?
Oh, you're being alarmist.
Everything will be fine.
And I just thought it was incredible.
So my task when I went home was if I could just come up with the top 10 reasons why this rule should have everyone's hair on fire and they read it, I'll be happy.
They're proposing to revise the guidance, that it shall no longer be a series of guidance statements where the agencies would then have their autonomy to go about their business and make their grant awards as they typically do based on independent scientific peer review.
And this document is alarming because it takes all that decision-making about the science and all the decision-making that's done by civil servants at other agencies away from those agencies.
Absolutely.
Right.
And by law, we were required to have these study sections, we called them, which were scientists who would review the applications, rank the applications, score the applications, give us written comments about the strengths and weaknesses of particular grant applications.
And then we would use that information and basically go down the list and fund as many of the top scored grants until we would run out of money for that year.
And that's pretty much how our decisions were made.
Supposedly, they'll continue the charade of doing the peer review, but at the end of the road, they'll have to funnel those grants that they want to fund up for a political pre-issuance review is what they're calling it.
Every discretionary grant before it may be awarded will now be required to go through approval by a political appointee who will determine whether or not they believe that particular grant demonstrably advances the president's policy priorities.
If you read the document, they do say that all the grants must include benchmarks for what they're calling, quote unquote, gold standard science.
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