Abstract
Readers of the Sciencescope item “Bad grades for U.S. science office” (20 June, p. 1577) could be forgiven for assuming that the article was about an evaluation of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). It was not. No such evaluation has occurred, and the report to which the article refers does not, in fact, grade OSTP or conclude that its performance is lacking. Those inferences are the result of the article's unfortunate and misleading title. The report is an uncontroversial catalog of historical OSTP functions, essentially all of which are being performed today. The report includes no evidence that they are not being performed excellently.
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