Geneticist Eric Lander had a reputation for being a bully, scientists say, as they call for more inspiring leadership.
, an OSTP spokesperson said that the White House investigation, undertaken in late 2021, did not find “credible evidence of gender-based discrimination”. It did, however, identify credible violations of the White House’s Safe and Respectful Workplace Policy, according to the spokesperson.
The OSTP is now without a head, and Biden without a Congressionally confirmed science adviser. Biden must waste no time in appointing a replacement, says physicist Neal Lane of Rice University in Houston, who served as science adviser to former president Bill Clinton. “We just need, as quickly as possible, someone in the driver's seat who’s respected inside and outside the White House,” Lane says.
“I am hoping they push women, and especially women of colour, to the top of the list,” says Emily Pinckney, the executive director of 500 Women Scientists, an advocacy groupin January 2021. She suggests that two researchers already at the OSTP, social scientist Alondra Nelson and ocean scientist Jane Lubchenco, are suited for the role.
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