{"id":208167,"date":"2025-10-18T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208167\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:42:09","slug":"promoted-on-sunday-fired-on-monday-inside-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208167\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoted on Sunday, Fired on Monday: Inside a\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These goals are in line with the administration\u2019s own stated priorities. Just weeks after shuttering OCS, the White House announced an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/05\/restoring-gold-standard-science\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> intended to, in its words, restore scientific integrity policies of federally funded research activities. Ironically, most of Draper\u2019s work at OCS was focused on scientific integrity initiatives. Every bit of those efforts has now been canceled, he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief Scientist was hardly an example of bloated bureaucracy, either. According to Draper, its operating costs were around 0.001% of NASA\u2019s budget: a \u201cwhopping\u201d $349,000 per year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving no money is what gave us our power,\u201d Draper said, explaining that low, independent funding helped keep OCS unbiased. \u201cWe were trying to bring you the best \u2014 and that is what has been lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forced out the door<\/p>\n<p>If OCS\u2019s closure was shortsighted, it wasn\u2019t alone. The larger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/articles\/4000-gone-inside-nasas-brain-drain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exodus of NASA employees<\/a> would turn out to be just as haphazard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m actually not opposed to reducing workforce if you do it in a thoughtful way,\u201d Nagaraja said, \u201c[But] the number of people that have left the agency \u2014 and the number of skills that NASA has lost \u2014 is tremendous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These goals are in line with the administration\u2019s own stated priorities. Just weeks after shuttering OCS, the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-208167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}