The NIH wants to “Measure and Reward Scientific Impact and Replicable Research Practices.” First step: stop suppressing government reports.

This came in the email from the U.S. National Institutes of Health: How Would You Measure and Reward Scientific Impact and Replicable Research Practices? As NIH continues efforts to strengthen rigor, reproducibility, and public trust in science, we are seeking input from the research community on an important question: Are we measuring and rewarding the activities that matter most for advancing biomedical discovery? NIH wants to hear your perspectives on how scientific impact and rigorous research should be measured and rewarded (NOT-OD-26-087). Comments will be accepted electronically here through our Request for Information (RFI) by August 19, 2026. My first step would be for the government to stop suppressing its own research. A visible example of this was a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that appears to have been un-published at the direct orders of the NIH director. So, yeah, one way to “reward scientific impact and replicable research practices” is to…