# Restoring Gold Standard Science

**URL:** https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/restoring-gold-standard-science/2420
**Category:** Open and replicable science
**Tags:** politics
**Created:** [June 1, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/restoring-gold-standard-science/2420 "2025-06-01T15:40:28Z")
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### Author: ![Gavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/Gavin)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/restoring-gold-standard-science/2420/1 "2025-06-01T15:40:28Z")

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> **[Restoring Gold Standard Science](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/)**
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> By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

COS and Brian Nosek have been quite critical about the new EO that superficially seems in-line with calls for OS reforms. I’m inclined to agree with their position. Thoughts?

> **[Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it...](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/trump-american-science)**
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> The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

> **[COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order](https://www.cos.io/about/news/cos-statement-on-restoring-gold-standard-science-executive-order)**
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> The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally. Ordinarily, such prominent promotion of these...