Integrity deadline

摘要

After a slow start, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is suddenly demanding fast progress on US President Barack Obama's scientific integrity initiative, launched in March 2009. John Holdren, the OSTP's director, said on 5 May that agencies have 90 days to submit draft policies on scientific integrity. So far, 6 out of the 31 agencies affected reportedly have such policies, and only one, the Department of the Interior, has a final policy. See go.nature.com/ s547fr for more.