Fda Nominee Calls For “conservative-based” Science

Scientific American reports:

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration previously called on conservatives to create new academic journals and to fund science that would explicitly back right-wing policy goals. Heidi Overton made the comments in a December 2023 appearance on The Tank, a podcast by the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute. Overton, who has a medical degree and is now a White House aide, was previously chief policy officer at the think tank.

In the 2023 interview, Overton called for new science journals that would be dedicated to “conservative-based” science and described a 20-year vision for changing the infrastructure of funding and research to make it more aligned with conservative policy. This vision included “alternate systems” for publishing research.

“We have, for too long, said conservatives are going to stay in the current system and just continue to fight and hope our ideas are heard. But in the meantime, the left starts journals called the Journal of Adolescent Transgender Medicine,” she said. No journal with that title exists.

Read the full article.

There is no such thing as “conservative-based” science. If you’re not doing evidence-based science, you are making up fairy tales.

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— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) August 25, 2026 at 7:48 PM

Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA.

The American people deserve someone who will put science and facts FIRST, not another Trump sycophant who will make it their mission to attack medication abortion.

I will vote NO.

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— Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) August 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM

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