Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
@jbd-phd.bsky.social
Analyst @ucs.org
Scientific Integrity; Defense of Science; Politicization of Science & Equity
Opinions are my own
Scientific Integrity; Defense of Science; Politicization of Science & Equity
Opinions are my own
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Of the 536 attacks on science that @jbd-phd.bsky.social and @ucs.org colleagues have tracked since January 20, 2025, many relate to how agencies "have attacked the science behind vaccine safety, development, and efficacy."
Consequence for public health will be severe.
blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
Consequence for public health will be severe.
blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
The Trump Administration’s Assault on Vaccines Endangers Us All
As the calendar year comes to an end, the Trump administration continues its campaign against science. Since January 20th, 2025, there have been 536 attacks on science—actions, decisions, and policies...
blog.ucs.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Of the 536 attacks on science that @jbd-phd.bsky.social and @ucs.org colleagues have tracked since January 20, 2025, many relate to how agencies "have attacked the science behind vaccine safety, development, and efficacy."
Consequence for public health will be severe.
blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
Consequence for public health will be severe.
blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
"It is impossible for science to thrive in an environment that silences experts or manipulates findings to fit political agendas, which is why the Scientific Integrity Act, reintroduced this year in Congress, is needed now more than ever before." -Joseph Reed, @ucs.org
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The Scientific Integrity Act Would Strengthen the US Economy and Innovation Edge
We need policy not just to protect scientific research but to help protect the United States’ economy, global standing, and ability to innovate.
blog.ucs.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"It is impossible for science to thrive in an environment that silences experts or manipulates findings to fit political agendas, which is why the Scientific Integrity Act, reintroduced this year in Congress, is needed now more than ever before." -Joseph Reed, @ucs.org
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Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
The Trump administration has given free rein to some of the most polluting industries in the country. We created an interactive map showing 546 industrial sites across the US and Puerto Rico deemed eligible for exemptions from their Clean Air Act requirements. #DirtyDeeds (🧵)
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Trump administration has given free rein to some of the most polluting industries in the country. We created an interactive map showing 546 industrial sites across the US and Puerto Rico deemed eligible for exemptions from their Clean Air Act requirements. #DirtyDeeds (🧵)
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We know President Trump is no friend of science or of providing health care to those who need it. The data and evidence show: acceptance and appropriate healthcare save kids’ lives. Get the facts: act.ucsusa.org/4qFhdQ1
President Trump Is Using Lies to Attack Trans Kids and Endanger Their Health: Here Are the Facts
Pretending kids don't know who they are isn't protecting them. Acknowledging and accepting kids as they are saves lives.
act.ucsusa.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We know President Trump is no friend of science or of providing health care to those who need it. The data and evidence show: acceptance and appropriate healthcare save kids’ lives. Get the facts: act.ucsusa.org/4qFhdQ1
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7/ The comment period for the rule is open until 11/7. Make your voice heard! 👇
Procedures for Chemical Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, "the Agency") is proposing to amend the procedural framework rule for conducting existing chemical risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Ac...
www.federalregister.gov
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
7/ The comment period for the rule is open until 11/7. Make your voice heard! 👇
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1/ Last month, the EPA proposed a rule that will significantly weaken safety reviews for toxic chemicals used in the U.S. Weakening these reviews can open the door to more exposure to toxic chemicals, including PFAS and formaldehyde.
Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
New rule would shorten the time it takes to review chemicals, and alter the methodology used to assess their dangers
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1/ Last month, the EPA proposed a rule that will significantly weaken safety reviews for toxic chemicals used in the U.S. Weakening these reviews can open the door to more exposure to toxic chemicals, including PFAS and formaldehyde.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Evidence for Democracy (E4D) recently completed a review of scientific integrity (SI) policies in the US & Canada. Its analysis revealed key criteria of SI (protections for scientists, transparent research, enforcing/normalizing SI policies) have suffered in the US since Inauguration.
Accretion and Erosion: A Comparative Analysis of Scientific Integrity in Canada and the US - Evidence For Democracy
Scientific credibility relies not only on the quality of research, but on the strength of the systems that safeguard it. As public trust declines and
evidencefordemocracy.ca
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Evidence for Democracy (E4D) recently completed a review of scientific integrity (SI) policies in the US & Canada. Its analysis revealed key criteria of SI (protections for scientists, transparent research, enforcing/normalizing SI policies) have suffered in the US since Inauguration.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government.
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
In the Dark: Trump Administration Continues to Cancel and Suppress Information
Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government.
blog.ucs.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cancelled surveys, suppressed publications, hidden data: the Trump administration is continuing to hack and slash its way through the entire enterprise of science within the federal government.
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
Here’s a snapshot of the attacks on science that we saw during September:
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
This week, a group of experts will step up in a big way to ensure that science goes on, despite Trump administration cuts to Federal science advice. They join several other independent science efforts fighting back. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
Science Must Go On: How Courageous Scientists Are Meeting the Moment
Scientists are stepping up to provide their expertise outside of federal structures that no longer support them.
blog.ucs.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This week, a group of experts will step up in a big way to ensure that science goes on, despite Trump administration cuts to Federal science advice. They join several other independent science efforts fighting back. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Last week the Trump administration shut down the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, which had provided crucial independent advice on protecting air quality for more than three decades.
E&E News: EPA scraps long-standing air pollution advisory panel
The demise removes a group of experts that could have probed the air quality impacts of the Trump administration's deregulatory blitz.
subscriber.politicopro.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Last week the Trump administration shut down the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, which had provided crucial independent advice on protecting air quality for more than three decades.
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BREAKING: New UCS report shows the Trump admin has systematically cut the public out of federal decision making, and six agencies bypassed public participation processes required by law in 182 out of 591 rules that were issued, rolled back, or delayed between January 20 and July 31.
Access Denied
How the Trump Administration Is Eliminating Public Input
act.ucsusa.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
BREAKING: New UCS report shows the Trump admin has systematically cut the public out of federal decision making, and six agencies bypassed public participation processes required by law in 182 out of 591 rules that were issued, rolled back, or delayed between January 20 and July 31.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
This week, multiple leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were ousted or resigned due to continued political interference and pressure to limit vaccine access. These firings defy all scientific evidence and endanger our health. We must not allow it to stand.
What Happens When Facts Don't Matter? We're about to Find out
Political interference at the CDC reaches new lows: RFK, Jr., must go.
blog.ucs.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This week, multiple leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were ousted or resigned due to continued political interference and pressure to limit vaccine access. These firings defy all scientific evidence and endanger our health. We must not allow it to stand.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
What's alarming about the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy guidance to agencies on "gold standard science"? @jbd-phd.bsky.social identifies red flags, like a lack of recognition of the importance of independent science and the need to protect scientists
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With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
Reverting SI policies to what they were in 2021 will unquestionably weaken them. By undoing the work of the past four years, federal agencies will abandon the benefits of all of the public consultatio...
blog.ucs.org
August 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What's alarming about the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy guidance to agencies on "gold standard science"? @jbd-phd.bsky.social identifies red flags, like a lack of recognition of the importance of independent science and the need to protect scientists
blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
This week, multiple leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ousted or resigned due to continued political interference and pressure to limit vaccine access – actions that defy the scientific evidence and endanger our health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
CDC in crisis: who are the top officials resigning or being forced out?
Four senior officials resign in protest at health secretary’s handling of vaccine policy and agency’s direction
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This week, multiple leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ousted or resigned due to continued political interference and pressure to limit vaccine access – actions that defy the scientific evidence and endanger our health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Trump’s executive order uses terms often associated with science and the scientific process, but behind this façade are directives that would weaken existing agency scientific integrity policies. These policies were created to protect federal scientists and their work from political attacks.
With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity
Reverting SI policies to what they were in 2021 will unquestionably weaken them. By undoing the work of the past four years, federal agencies will abandon the benefits of all of the public consultation, careful consideration, and evidence gathered to develop Biden-era SI policies.
blog.ucs.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Trump’s executive order uses terms often associated with science and the scientific process, but behind this façade are directives that would weaken existing agency scientific integrity policies. These policies were created to protect federal scientists and their work from political attacks.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Environmental justice (EJ) is about fairness and access to a healthy and safe environment for all people. The Trump administration has disrupted and disbanded EJ initiatives including funding, research, and projects. Yet, this important work has and must continue. 🧵
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Environmental justice (EJ) is about fairness and access to a healthy and safe environment for all people. The Trump administration has disrupted and disbanded EJ initiatives including funding, research, and projects. Yet, this important work has and must continue. 🧵
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Federal scientific integrity (SI) policies were created to protect fed scientists & their work from politicization, retaliation, & censorship. The Trump admin is replacing them w/ new policies to give the admin more leeway in politicizing science to reach conclusions convenient for its agenda🧵
Trump’s Executive Order Puts Science Under the Thumb of Politics
The latest order is a smoke screen created to push forward a political agenda disguised as science.
blog.ucs.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Federal scientific integrity (SI) policies were created to protect fed scientists & their work from politicization, retaliation, & censorship. The Trump admin is replacing them w/ new policies to give the admin more leeway in politicizing science to reach conclusions convenient for its agenda🧵
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
More than 3,000 scientists and public health specialists have been let go from the Department of Health and Human Services, per a new study from @propublica.org, based on that agency’s employee directory.
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
projects.propublica.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
More than 3,000 scientists and public health specialists have been let go from the Department of Health and Human Services, per a new study from @propublica.org, based on that agency’s employee directory.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
“By reverting to these older policies, we’re going to see scientists lose protections from retaliation. We’re going to see the loss of professional or appointed scientific integrity officers,” said UCS's Jennifer Jones. “They will now basically be replaced with political appointees.”
Trump rolls back rules meant to keep politics out of climate research
The new changes scrap broad provisions that scientists had pushed for, including assurance that independent arbiters would oversee enforcement of the scientific integrity policies.
wapo.st
August 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“By reverting to these older policies, we’re going to see scientists lose protections from retaliation. We’re going to see the loss of professional or appointed scientific integrity officers,” said UCS's Jennifer Jones. “They will now basically be replaced with political appointees.”
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ASK A SCIENTIST: Can documenting attacks on science help us stop authoritarianism? UCS's Jules Barbati-Dajches Responds.
Ask a Scientist: How Does Documenting Attacks on Science Stop Authoritarians?
Last month, UCS published Science and Democracy Under Siege: Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions, a report that catalogs 402 attacks on science between January 20 and June 30, 2025.
act.ucsusa.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ASK A SCIENTIST: Can documenting attacks on science help us stop authoritarianism? UCS's Jules Barbati-Dajches Responds.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
August 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
"When people work together, there can still be wins for federal science, even with the unprecedented number and ferocity of attacks on science we’ve observed since Inauguration Day." Stay up to date on federal science wins and challenges in UCS's monthly round-up by @jbd-phd.bsky.social.
From the Courtroom to the Internet, the Fight Over Federal Science Is On
It’s been six months since President Trump took the oath of office and his administration began its all-out effort to gut federal science—though it’s understandable if it feels like even longer. If yo...
blog.ucs.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"When people work together, there can still be wins for federal science, even with the unprecedented number and ferocity of attacks on science we’ve observed since Inauguration Day." Stay up to date on federal science wins and challenges in UCS's monthly round-up by @jbd-phd.bsky.social.
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science.
Read our new report here: act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
Read our new report here: act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
July 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically and recklessly undermined federal science.
Read our new report here: act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
Read our new report here: act.ucsusa.org/Trump6Months
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵
Reposted by Jules Barbati-Dajches, PhD
The richness of President Trump's Science Advisor accusing others of politicizing science as they gut Federal science agencies and target politically contentious science topics—like climate, equity, and vaccines—with surgical precision is really quite something. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sound policy demands sound science
For more than a decade, prominent scientists across disciplines and institutions in the United States have expressed concerns about the quality of the nation’s science and, in the best scientific trad...
www.science.org
June 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The richness of President Trump's Science Advisor accusing others of politicizing science as they gut Federal science agencies and target politically contentious science topics—like climate, equity, and vaccines—with surgical precision is really quite something. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...