Trump’s science adviser calls for return to ‘gold-standard’ research to kickstart stalled advances

President Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, called for a return to reproducible and transparent research to kickstart what he characterized as years of stalled scientific progress, in his first detailed public remarks on science policy since taking office in March.

Kratsios, who heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy, said on Monday that biomedical research budgets have risen sharply since the 1990s and contributed to breakthroughs such as CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that’s now the basis for a sickle cell therapy. But he also said that this increase in federal dollars hasn’t led to an overall rise in new drug approvals, adding that studies have found that scientific advancements have become increasingly incremental.

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