This is at the USGS
“It is my recommendation and the unanimous counsel of the SIRP’s that the [lab] be immediately and permanently shut down,” Thornhill wrote. (RELATED: Federal Lab Forced To Close After ‘Disturbing’ Data Manipulation)
Some of Thornhill’s most egregious findings included:
- “[P]ervasive scientific dysfunction” was “widely known” among USGS labs since at least 2008
- “[T]here appears to be no portion of the [lab] in its current state that can be salvaged and ordered to resume work” and the facility faced an “irreparable loss of scientific integrity/reputation”
- There “is ineffective leadership at all levels within the” lab and management is “dysfunctional and broken”
- “Management inattentiveness” contributed to the lab’s “sub-standard performance and loss of scientific integrity”
- Managers allowed “toxic work conditions” involving “offensive language and behavior”
- “[I]nteractions between personnel … are plagued with mistrust and disrespect” and the “situation deteriorated even further” after the data manipulation was reported
- There was a “disengagement from standard operating procedures … at all levels since at least 2008”
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