A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This editorial is written by a group of 28 present and former editors of peer reviewed scientific journals specializing in the publication of addiction research. The authors have signed this editorial as individuals, not as representatives of any organization. Institutional affiliations are listed to demonstrate the authors' academic credentials. Also published in: Babor, T. F., Adinoff, B., Clark, L., Crockford, D., Demetrovics, Z., Dietze, P., Fallu, J., Gainsbury, S., Gilchrist, G., Gorelick, D. A., Graham, K., Grebely, J., Heim, D., Hellman, M., Laslett, A., McCuistian, C., Miovsky, M., Morojele, N. K., Moskalewicz, J., Obot, I. S., Pates, R., Room, R., Rychert, M., Sultan, A., Treloar, C., Turner, N. E., Wells, S., Williams, E. C., & Witkiewitz, K. (2025). A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 14(2), 567-570. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2025.00033 Babor, T., Adinoff, B., Clark, L., Crockford, D., Demetrovics, Z., Dietze, P., Fallu, J., Gainsbury, S., Gilchrist, G., Gorelick, D., Graham, K., Grebely, J., Heim, D., Hellman, M., Laslett, A., McCuistian, C., Miovsky, M., Morojele, N., Moskalewicz, J., Obot, I., Pates, R., Room, R., Rychert, M., Sultan, A., Treloar, C., Turner, N., Wells, S., Williams, E., and Witkiewitz, K. (2024). A clarion call to the addiction science community: It’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration. Alcoholism and Drug Addiction/Alkoholizm i Narkomania, 37(3), pp.133-140. https://doi.org/10.5114/ain.2024.149923 Babor, T. F., Adinoff, B., Clark, L., Crockford, D., Demetrovics, Z., Dietze, P., … Witkiewitz, K. (2025). A clarion call to the addiction science community: it’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 51(5), 535–538. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2025.2555137
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.044 | 0.135 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.022 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.051 | 0.063 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.030 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".