On May 23, the Trump administration issued an executive order titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science.” Using agreeable rhetoric, the order says that it aims to safeguard scientific rigor, prevent misconduct, and restore public trust in government science.

But beneath this golden gloss lies a return to strategies that threaten to weaken federal science, dismiss scientific findings, and open the door to political manipulation of evidence-based policy.

One striking example is its directive that agencies must make public “the data, analyses, and conclusions” associated with any scientific information used to shape major policy. On the surface, this appears to champion transparency. But it closely mirrors the first Trump administration’s now-defunct Environmental Protection Agency “Secret

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