*White House climate aide Jane Lubchenco was today sanctioned in accordance with the National Academy of Sciences’ code of conduct. Axios reported on Tuesday.
Lubchenco is deputy director for climate and environmental at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She violated NAS ethics policies before her involvement with White House. Axios reported . Lubchenco edited a paper that was eventually retracted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) due to technical errors in the analysis, as well as the fact that Lubchenco had previously worked with the scientists involved, one of whom was her brother-in-law, E&E News reported Tuesday. (RELATED: White House To Hold First-Ever ‘Climate Denial’ Roundtable)
“NAS members shall avoid those detrimental research practices that are clear violations of the fundamental tenets of research,” reads the NAS Code of Conduct Section 3, which Axios reports Lubchenco was held accountable for violating. According to Axios, Lubchenco stated that members should act as fair and objective peer-reviewers and maintain confidentiality when asked. They also need to promptly correct errors in the literature and credit prior work with citations .”
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The sanctions follow Republican criticism of Lubchenco and the Biden administration, with Reps. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma, Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma and Jay Obernolte of California requesting in a Feb. 10 letter that President Joe Biden “consider whether Dr. Lubchenco’s leading role in the Administration’s scientific integrity efforts undermines public confidence in future policy decisions.”
“As an editor at PNAS, Dr. Lubchenco demonstrated a clear disregard for rules meant to prevent conflicts of interest in publishing peer-reviewed studies,” the letter states. Now, Dr. Lubchenco plays a lead role in developing and supervising the Administration’s scientific integrity best practices. Her breach of one core principle of scientific integrity renders her current leadership position very troubling .”
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At the time this article was published, Lubchenco hadn’t been removed from her post in the Biden administration. Lubchenco continued to tweet Tuesday afternoon, promoting the Biden Administration’s policy agenda.
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