1. United States
2. N.J.
3. Letter

I urge you strongly to oppose the proposed changes to OMB . If enacted, this proposal will directly impact the work of scientific societies, and will suppress scientific freedom, place barriers to the open exchange of scientific ideas, and supplant excepted peer review practices with political oversight that will negatively impact scientific rigor and reproducibility. The proposal represents an unprecedented interference in science, and will disrupt, well established and highly productive models for assessing, funding, and supporting scientific research in the United States. The impact will not only reach, researchers, educators and trainees who dedicate their careers to scientific research, but also to every US citizen who benefits from their discoveries.