Review & Outlook: CDC director Rochelle Walensky says she’s going to reshuffle the agency with an emphasis on 'action' and 'equity.' We finally learned of the journal’s existence, however, when we tried to publish a commentary about how modern science is being compromised by a de-emphasis on merit. Apparently, what was once anodyne and unobjectionable is now contentious and outré, even in the hard sciences. Merit isn’t much in vogue anywhere these days. Our intent was to defend established and effective practices of judging science based on its merit alone.

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