#openwashing — Public Fediverse posts
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A new #Trump executive order defines a "gold standard" for federally-funded science.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/Three points for now, and more later.
1. Most of the standards (3.a.i-ix) are borrowed from #OpenScience or conventional pre-Trump science. So far, so good.
2. Implementing the new standards is left to Trump-appointed political operatives (3.c).
3. With minor exceptions, agencies must make public "the data, analyses, and conclusions" on which they make policy (4.a.i.A).
More on the 3d point. In Trump's first admin, the Environment Protection Agency (#EPA) and Dept of the Interior required that all data used in policymaking be open. That seemed to be a laudable #OpenData policy. But it meant that EPA couldn't set policy based on private medical data on the harms caused by air- and water-borne pollutants. It was a head-fake to open in order to relax policies protecting the environment. That's why I called it #OpenWashing. Point 3 above is a big step in the same direction.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=#oa.epa+AND+#oa.openwashingNote that #Project2025 (p. 439) calls for this kind of openwashing, specifically at the EPA. The new Trump EO acts on that recommendation and extends it to all federal agencies.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#DefendResearch #GoldStandard #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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If anyone has a working scraper for "Open Archive" PDF content on the ScienceDirect platform, please let me know.
The PDFs there are only 'open' to humans doing clicks in web browsers. Security seems to have beefed-up a lot since I last did my scrapes! ☹️
#OpenAccess #BronzeOA #Openwashing #ElsevierBeingElsevier #WhyMakeAccessToResearchSoHard?
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If anyone has a working scraper for "Open Archive" PDF content on the ScienceDirect platform, please let me know.
The PDFs there are only 'open' to humans doing clicks in web browsers. Security seems to have beefed-up a lot since I last did my scrapes! ☹️
#OpenAccess #BronzeOA #Openwashing #ElsevierBeingElsevier #WhyMakeAccessToResearchSoHard?
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If anyone has a working scraper for "Open Archive" PDF content on the ScienceDirect platform, please let me know.
The PDFs there are only 'open' to humans doing clicks in web browsers. Security seems to have beefed-up a lot since I last did my scrapes! ☹️
#OpenAccess #BronzeOA #Openwashing #ElsevierBeingElsevier #WhyMakeAccessToResearchSoHard?
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If anyone has a working scraper for "Open Archive" PDF content on the ScienceDirect platform, please let me know.
The PDFs there are only 'open' to humans doing clicks in web browsers. Security seems to have beefed-up a lot since I last did my scrapes! ☹️
#OpenAccess #BronzeOA #Openwashing #ElsevierBeingElsevier #WhyMakeAccessToResearchSoHard?
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If anyone has a working scraper for "Open Archive" PDF content on the ScienceDirect platform, please let me know.
The PDFs there are only 'open' to humans doing clicks in web browsers. Security seems to have beefed-up a lot since I last did my scrapes! ☹️
#OpenAccess #BronzeOA #Openwashing #ElsevierBeingElsevier #WhyMakeAccessToResearchSoHard?