Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC, USA.
J Public Health Policy. 2023 Mar;44(1):147-162. doi: 10.1057/s41271-022-00390-6. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
In the United States, science shapes federal health and safety protections, but political officials can and do politicize federal science and science-based safeguards. Many presidential administrations have politicized science, but under the administration of President Trump, these attacks on science-such as buried research, censored scientists, halted data collection-increased in number to unprecedented levels. Underserved communities bore the brunt of the harms. Such attacks disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, low-income communities, and communities of color, all of whom have long been burdened by pollution exposure and other stressors. We analyze the effects on underserved communities of the Trump administration's anti-science environmental and public health policy actions and offer policy recommendations for current and future administrations. Our goal is to strengthen scientific integrity, prioritize health disparity research, and meaningfully engage affected communities in federal rulemaking.
在美国，科学影响着联邦的健康和安全保护，但政治官员确实可以将联邦科学和基于科学的保障措施政治化。许多总统政府都使科学政治化，但在特朗普总统的领导下，这些对科学的攻击——如隐藏研究、审查科学家、停止数据收集——的数量增加到了前所未有的水平。服务不足的社区首当其冲受到伤害。这些攻击不成比例地伤害了黑人和原住民、低收入社区以及有色人种社区，这些社区长期以来一直受到污染暴露和其他压力源的困扰。我们分析了特朗普政府反科学的环境和公共卫生政策行动对服务不足社区的影响，并为现任和未来政府提供了政策建议。我们的目标是加强科学完整性，优先考虑健康差异研究，并让受影响的社区在联邦法规制定中得到有意义的参与。
