Some federal employees working in science-related jobs say they've seen policy shifts in the past year that harm America's most vulnerable populations, from the reorganization of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice to the reported focus on "all Americans" (rather than specific risk groups, a common practice in public-health research).
These results come from a survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group that has opposed several Trump administration decisions recently. The Union of Concerned Scientists has run similar, though smaller, surveys every few years since 2005.
Aimed at checking whether federal scientists feel free to do their work without political interference, the anonymous survey was sent to more than 63,000 federal employees in 16 science agencies; when the information was available, the surveyors targeted folks whose job titles showed they worked in research, inspections, or science policy. Only about 7 percent answered.
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