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Paul Tonko: These efforts pay cheap lip-service to improving scientific integrity and transparency, but their true purpose is to…

On the recordNovember 12, 2019
These efforts pay cheap lip-service to improving scientific integrity and transparency, but their true purpose is to undermine the decades of sound science.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko argues that transparency proposals prioritize political agendas over scientific integrity.

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