Gold Standard Science
On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14303, Restoring Gold Standard Science, to ensure that federally funded research is transparent, rigorous, and impactful, and that Federal decisions are informed by the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available. All federal agencies must conduct scientific activities in a manner that is:
- Reproducible
- Transparent
- Communicative of error and uncertainty
- Collaborative and interdisciplinary
- Skeptical of its findings and assumptions
- Structured for falsifiability of hypothesis
- Subject to unbiased peer review
- Accepting of negative results as positive outcomes; and
- Without conflicts of interest
Implementation Reports
HUD summarizes how it implements Gold Standard Science in an annual report, which is submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). You can learn about HUD’s commitment to safeguarding the integrity of federal research below:
- Read the HUD Gold Standard Science Report (2025)
- Read the HUD Gold Standard Science Report (2026, forthcoming)
Related Content
- Staff training on Gold Standard Science (forthcoming)
- Learn more OSTP’s guidance to agencies here