The country’s only known population, which draws thousands of tourists to the Simien Mountains each year, is down to 306 individuals.

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By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.

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EXCLUSIVE: The White House Office of Science and Technology directed federal agencies to implement “Gold Standard Science" and de-politicize science and restore public trust.

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The in-house journals would have legitimacy, he said, because of an NIH stamp of approval and would become the pre-eminent scientific journals in the world.

All three of those journals have published original, peer-reviewed research for decades and contribute to the distribution of scientific information across the planet.

“Unless these journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing there and we are going to create our own journals, in-house,” Kennedy Jr. said.

The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.