Inside the Battle Over OMB’s Shocking Proposed Rule Changes: How Top US Chefs Are Fighting Back on Research Funding
Alice Meadows
The proposed OMB rule change should be setting alarm bells ringing loudly for everyone in our community and beyond. If implemented, it will have devastating consequences for research and researchers in the U.S. and around the world. The proposed changes will shape what research is selected to receive federal funding and impact almost every aspect of how that research is evaluated, financed, and disseminated. Rather than being conducted based on its scientific and scholarly merit, research will be conducted based on the whims and political goals of the administration. There’s so much in the proposed change to object to that it’s hard to know which elements to comment on. Because of my work with the #DefendResearch team, I decided to focus on a couple of the areas related to censorship — restrictions on international collaborations and on association membership and professional activities/conference attendance.
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