[font face=Serif][font size=5]AAAS Explores Science Policy in the Incoming Trump Administration[/font]

17 November 2016 | Anne Q. Hoy

[font size=3]President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to boost the U.S. economy and improve the lives of Americans requires investment in science, technology, innovation and education, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in an editorial Science released online on Nov. 17.

Holt, who also serves as the executive publisher of the Science family of journals, called on the administration to make scientific evidence a touchstone of policy making even when research results may challenge political goals.

“We must make clear that an official cannot wish away what is known about climate change, gun violence, opioid addiction, fisheries depletion or any other public issue illuminated by research,” wrote Holt in the Science editorial that also will appear in the Nov. 25 print edition.

The incoming administration’s success will depend on the extent to which it supports international research efforts, taps scientists to serve throughout federal agencies, backs tax policies that spur private and public sector work in science and encourages scientists to share research findings that test political positions, wrote Holt.

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