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OMB nominee Hal Duncan: “This administration is committed to gold standard science and wants to advance the best cancer research that we possibly can.” Sen. Slotkin: “Slashing cancer research…is not a way to uphold a gold standard for cancer research.”

Sherrerd

@duerpress.com

It's getting so no serious person can even use the phrase "gold standard science" any more--it's now so reliably associated with anti-science, fund-slashing, snake-handling woo-woo.

17/6/26, 6:40 pm2 reposts5 likes

Y. Mudpuppy

@yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social

18 June

No one ever did use it. There is no such thing as "gold standard science". It's a fake phrase they made up.

Sherrerd

@duerpress.com

18 June

Good point.