White House office tells agencies to apply 'Gold Standard Science' to depoliticize research, restore trust

EXCLUSIVE: The White House Office of Science and Technology connected Monday directed national agencies to instrumentality "gold modular science" principles to depoliticize subject and reconstruct nationalist trust, Fox News Digital has learned.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios sent guidance to national probe agencies Monday morning, incorporating President Donald Trump's enforcement bid connected "Restoring Gold Standard Science."

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Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the guidance sent to national agencies.

President Donald Trump holds up a signed enforcement bid successful the Oval Office of the White House connected May 23, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President Trump, successful May, signed an enforcement bid to reconstruct "Gold Standard Science" arsenic the cornerstone of national technological research.

"Gold Standard Science" is "reproducible, transparent and falsifiable," according to the order. 

It is besides "subject to unbiased adjacent review; wide astir errors and uncertainties; skeptical of assumptions; collaborative and interdisciplinary; accepting of antagonistic results arsenic affirmative outcomes; and escaped from conflicts of interest." 

The enforcement bid reinstated "the technological integrity policies" of the archetypal Trump medication and "ensures that subject is nary longer manipulated oregon misused to warrant governmental ends." 

"President Trump’s Gold Standard Science EO volition alteration the behaviour and absorption of national science, from probe plan to nationalist communication, successful bid to fortify technological inquiry, rebuild nationalist trust, and guarantee the U.S. continues to beryllium the planetary person successful rigorous, evidence-based science," Kratsios told Fox News Digital. "But national agencies are lone 1 portion of our nation’s probe ecosystem."

Kratsios added, "American universities, technological journals, manufacture and philanthropic leaders each person a important relation successful improving the wide prime of research, and we promote this enforcement enactment to service arsenic a exemplary for the full technological enterprise."

Kratsios sent the memo to national agencies Monday greeting to supply guidance to national departments and agencies connected implementing golden modular subject "in the behaviour and absorption of each aspects of their technological activities, from probe plan to nationalist communication."

"By adopting these standards, agencies volition fortify technological inquiry, rebuild nationalist trust, and guarantee the United States continues arsenic the planetary person successful rigorous, evidence-based science," the memo states.

Kratsios said that "Gold Standard Science" represents a "commitment to the highest standards of technological integrity, defined by 9 halfway tenets: reproducible; transparent; communicative of mistake and uncertainty; collaborative and interdisciplinary; skeptical of its findings and assumptions; structured for falsifiability of hypotheses; taxable to unbiased adjacent review; accepting of antagonistic results arsenic affirmative outcomes; and without conflicts of interest."

White House Science and Technology Office Director Michael Kratsios. ( Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"These tenets guarantee that federally-supported probe and probe utilized successful national decision-making is transparent, rigorous, and impactful, enabling national decisions to beryllium informed by the astir credible, reliable, and impartial technological grounds available," Kratsios wrote successful the guidance.

But "Gold Standard Science" is not constricted to science, Kratsios said, saying that it is captious for tackling analyzable challenges successful vigor innovation and nationalist information arsenic well.

"In an property of accelerated technological advancement and heightened nationalist scrutiny, federally-funded and federally-performed science, and its usage successful Federal decision-making, indispensable beryllium beyond reproach," helium wrote.

As for conducting subject "without conflicts of interest," Kratsios said it is imperative to guarantee that "research is designed, executed, reviewed, and reported escaped from financial, personal, oregon organization influences that could bias outcomes oregon undermine objectivity."

"This attack is important for generating trustworthy and credible caller knowledge, arsenic it upholds technological integrity, fosters nationalist confidence, and ensures that results bespeak grounds alternatively than outer agendas," the memo states. "Maintaining state from conflicts of involvement requires researchers, reviewers, and managers to disclose each applicable affiliations, backing sources, and relationships applicable to the subject conducted, adhering to stringent ethical standards supported by beardown organization oversight, transparent reporting systems, and autarkic adept reappraisal mechanisms."

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Kratsios said agencies indispensable "prioritize conducting and managing technological probe escaped from conflicts of involvement to beforehand unbiased science," and indispensable "require disclosure of each applicable conflicts of involvement by researchers, reviewers, and bureau officials progressive successful the backing oregon show of Federal research."

"These efforts see requiring comprehensive, standardized disclosure of each financial, personal, oregon organization interests successful probe proposals, publications, adjacent and merit reviews, and information repositories, with wide and standardized protocols to identify, mitigate, and negociate imaginable biases," the memo states. "Agencies should mandate the usage of autarkic oversight approaches and enforce strict conflict-of-interest policies."

Agencies person 60 days to outline "Gold Standard Science" implementation plans, including plans for grooming and resources to guarantee bureau unit recognize the caller policy, and the usage of artificial intelligence-driven tools erstwhile practical.

After Trump signed the May enforcement bid to reconstruct golden modular science, a elder White House authoritative said determination had been a diminution successful "disruptive research" and investments successful biomedical research, on with "serious cases" of fraud and misconduct and the inability to reproduce technological methods for the intent of restoring nationalist trust.

The authoritative besides blamed argumentation responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and "woke DEI initiatives" for endangering the public’s spot successful authorities scientists.

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Now-retired National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was repeatedly denounced for flip-flopping and obfuscating during his clip engineering the national effect to COVID-19, starring many, peculiarly connected the right, to disregard and disregard the legitimacy of national wellness authorities outright.

That bid cites the information the Biden medication included governmental edits from teachers' unions successful school-reopening guidance, alternatively of starring with immoderate technological evidence.

Meanwhile, successful an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital successful April, Kratsios echoed Trump, saying the U.S. is successful the "golden age" and that this peculiar infinitesimal successful clip is "underpinned by unbelievable subject and technology."