Politicized science appointments

Politicized science appointments are the installation of unqualified or ideologically selected individuals into scientific, statistical, or technical roles that require domain expertise — agency chief scientists, advisory committee members, statistical office leadership. Concrete forms include the replacement of career experts with political appointees lacking relevant credentials, the stacking of advisory committees with members holding minority views inconsistent with the field's consensus, and the bypassing of standard credentialing for politically aligned candidates.