CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
ignorance is strength
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/
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The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
ignorance is strength
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System,
parts of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Social Vulnerability Index and the Environmental Justice Index. The CDC’s landing page for HIV data has also vanished. And the agency’s AtlasPlus tool.
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If the government chooses to define sex as binary, transgender people and nonbinary people, among others, could be effectively erased.
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If no data exist to prove that a health issue concentrates within a particular community, that “provides a justification to cut funding
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