在过去的几年，已有越来越多的迹象表明，在联邦政府层面上，存在着用各种各样的战略和战术对科学过程的完整性所作的系统性挑战和威胁。独立的政府审核机构和委员会被解散。获取数据和信息的途径减少了。联邦政府的科学家遭禁口。科学声望，而不是科学证据，受到质疑。由联邦政府机构或政府之外的人士准备的科学分析和结论，因政治和意识形态的原因被没有做过科研的人加以改变。党派机构的工作已取代了超党派科学家的工作。
For the last several years, there have been growing indications of systematic challenges and threats at the federal level to the integrity of the scientific process using a variety of strategies and tactics. Independent government review organizations and advisory boards have been disbanded. Access to data and information has been reduced. Federal scientists have been muzzled. Scientific reputations, rather than scientific evidence itself, have been questioned. Scientific analyses and conclusions, prepared within federal agencies or by people outside of government, have been changed for political and ideological reasons by people who have not done the scientific work. Work by partisan organizations has been substituted for work by non-partisan scientists.