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, the spokesperson said. The OSTP has not released the investigation report, and declined to do so toIn his resignation letter to Biden, Lander said he is “devastated” at the harm his actions have caused, and that he takes full responsibility.
The OSTP is now without a head, and Biden without a congressionally confirmed science adviser. The president must waste no time in appointing a replacement, says physicist Neal Lane at Rice University in Houston, Texas, 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 international advocacy groupin January 2021. She suggests that two researchers already at the OSTP are suited for the role: social scientist Alondra Nelson and ocean scientist Jane Lubchenco.
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