Yesterday I did a rewrite on a blog post for an eye care tech company. I pulled the CDC and NIH links in the original, replaced them with research journals and non-profit health orgs. US gov data is no longer the gold standard - or even consistently available. How far we have fallen, and how fast. - ThreadSky

rebekahwriter.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Yesterday I did a rewrite on a blog post for an eye care tech company. I pulled the CDC and NIH links in the original, replaced them with research journals and non-profit health orgs. US gov data is no longer the gold standard - or even consistently available.

How far we have fallen, and how fast.

Comments

roswarrior.bsky.social•7 days ago

So you pulled scientific data and replaced it with hearsay and conjecture? You think people are dying now….☠️

joyce4liberty.bsky.social•7 days ago

She pulled the links. Seeing how there is NO INFO on their websites. Read her last sentence.

flashgman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just keep telling the truth.

dabxdee.bsky.social•6 days ago

Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country, they're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession

joyce4liberty.bsky.social•7 days ago

And you're just one person. The ramifications from ALL of this is beyond my ability to fathom. HE MUST BE STOPPED! NOW!

clarcm.bsky.social•7 days ago

Horrible and dangerous fall for USA’s citizens

anet2111.bsky.social•7 days ago

I ran into the same challenge with a nursing course I teach. In my original content, the links to govt sites that I reference were broken. Required a lot of rework. This is chaos.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’m so sorry to hear that.

anet2111.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’m sorry to hear of your challenges as well.

mmk007.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’m right there with you. I don’t know how I’m gonna have to update everything I teach and have students do.

professoryemiadams.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/professoryemiadams.bsky.social/post/3li6eosbsbk2z

mommat-4b.bsky.social•7 days ago

Anyone who can should take a 4 yr break or vacation in another country. Passport 130.00 and apply for a visa when you get there. A retirement visa.

ancient0.bsky.social•7 days ago

They were warned! F O time now! Shame!
Trump is trash!

89vol.bsky.social•7 days ago

Appreciate the swiftness and potency of your efforts

docshrew.bsky.social•7 days ago

The new standard of reporting and communication is not using government sources.

pfiore8.bsky.social•7 days ago

😔

scipionow.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hire a clown, and you get a circus. But, you also get incompetence elevated to a critical leverage.

craigfaanes.bsky.social•7 days ago

What about Canadian or Australian government sites in addition? They haven't been tainted by the Orange Menace.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Those resources will be great for other data. In this case, I needed US diabetes incidence numbers. The American Diabetes Association had what I needed and maybe the link will inspire people to donate to them.

craigfaanes.bsky.social•7 days ago

Ohhhh...ok. Understood.

thenewnucleus.bsky.social•7 days ago

So it’s safe to say that amidst all of the massive layoffs, the only new jobs that have been created are people having to correct online information that is now missing or corrupted by oligarchs?

blue-at-birth.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trump never understood or understands basic biological principles. He thus will eliminate any discussion related to it in order to maintain the impression he knows best about everything. As such, attack science, bury it, eliminate it.

sassyvan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes. Obscenely fast descent.

allietoday.bsky.social•7 days ago

What sources are available from Canada??

hellokitty55.bsky.social•7 days ago

With that many employees have been fired, they have to set up a private organization with fires employees like shadow CDC. With the funding of private donors.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

If you can get Marc Cuban behind it, I’m all in!

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•6 days ago

We are no longer a world leader. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-will-tell-you-that-i-am-no-christian.html?m=1

jillsomebody.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is terrible but to be fair, CDC has been increasingly untrustworthy ever since the start of Covid js

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Untrue. You have become mistrustful of expertise, likely due to listening to malign actors.

sistasue.bsky.social•7 days ago

Uh huh. Because Trump told you not to trust them. And it sounds like you believed him to not trust them
We're not talking about just eye care.
The CDC is/was comprised of America's top leading research scientists, biologists, medical experts.
America's own doctors/physicians rely on the CDC.

melisa1.bsky.social•7 days ago

No it has not. Research bf you share your incompetence.

proggrrl.bsky.social•7 days ago

This (for now) is the way.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

I hate it. The level of excellence at CDC and NIH is unparalleled. Some of the best minds in science. Now these fools are trying to dismantle decades of scientific leadership.

proggrrl.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hoping we can fix this, both by convincing more voters and by powering up independent NGO's to replace what is being lost.

chris81409.bsky.social•7 days ago

We have not fallen, we were pushed

melisa1.bsky.social•7 days ago

Time to push back

ericmichaelmoberg.bsky.social•7 days ago

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

― Adam Smith

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-business-plot-or-when-j-p-morgans-pals-tried-to-overthrow-fdr/

mommat-4b.bsky.social•7 days ago

War is a racket. 💙

wanderingrocket.bsky.social•7 days ago

If you fell this fast in 3 weeks. Imagine how far you'll have fallen in a year.

whosthebunny.bsky.social•7 days ago

Sadly, I believe we are going to have to start getting our science and health data and information from other countries

sinatradaniels.bsky.social•6 days ago

We’re not even the tin standard!

heyfrannie.bsky.social•7 days ago

rlnees.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bang hit hottom

hopesprayers.bsky.social•7 days ago

It took Hitler 53 days. We are at day 27 today.

takaminebill.bsky.social•7 days ago

Aided massively by a compliant corporate media.

rexrexmadamex.bsky.social•7 days ago

Maga 🟠💩🤡🎪

feliciasart.bsky.social•6 days ago

What are the links?

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•6 days ago

Which ones? I removed links about diabetes incidence and diabetic retinopathy from CDC and the National Eye Institute. I replaced the incidence link with one from American Diabetes Assoc, and the others with JAMA articles and info from American Assoc. of Ophthamology.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•6 days ago

The info at CDC and NIH is still valid since it pre-dates this administration. I just can’t be certain the sites will remain accessible. I don’t want to send readers to dead links.

dogcatcher4.bsky.social•6 days ago

Look at who's in charge, unchecked & unimpeded!

If we think we have fallen far, just wait till we look back in a few months.

tompaine1.bsky.social•7 days ago

@raskin.house.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov
@warren.senate.gov
@sanders.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov

The Plot Against America
By M Brock

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

🔥Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth

By TNR
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ&pp=ygUKTmVyZCByZWljaA%3D%3D

mmk007.bsky.social•7 days ago

Exactly the whole point. The backlash against science has been coming hard and strong for awhile- and it’s not only in the US. It’s all part of Project 2025 🤕😢😡😤. But honestly I don’t think the majority of citizens are even aware and support it! Especially as they age & get chronic diseases?

faith54.bsky.social•7 days ago

they'll be aware of it big time when they have a measles outbreak, the nextgen Covid outbreak, avian influenza, unchecked tuberculous, and polio . . . and as for aged care, I have to wonder if RFK is revisiting Soylent Green!

strangebrickdroog.bsky.social•7 days ago

Soylent Green has popped into my head a few times in the last week! :-/

shanamccrumb.bsky.social•7 days ago

So far, so fast 😥

paulthentim.bsky.social•7 days ago

I wonder if there is going to be a "brain drain" in the US and all the talented people will move to Europe, kind of a reverse of the 1930's when Germany pulled this.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes, there will be. Multiple countries have been building scientific infrastructure and creating tax incentive to attract clinical research. India and Australia are two that I know of. There’s nothing by stopping biomed researchers from going overseas.

goldenstatecats.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’ve posted here on #bluesky asking Governor Newsom to hire these respected scientists and scholars

Then use their work for good

Then have nation-states pay fees to access California’s intellectual capital as income that off-sets the extra costs of taking over Federal research

Thoughts?

betsybanks.bsky.social•6 days ago

The issue with this is that scientific inquiry is, by definition and design, heuristic. Scientists share their data. They welcome others to both replicate their work and take it further. It’s the very nature of science. Paying for “intellectual capital” runs contrary to this, IMO.

merbatash.bsky.social•7 days ago

I was thinking about this as well. It will certainly be a unnecessary loss.
Who could blame them?
The MAGATs have put idiots in charge and look what is happening!!!!

jekolski.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trump had a plan-and people around him made sure he carried it out. Project2025 and America First. Musk and friends made this all possible. He’s there to make sure Trump stays the course. Harris told us all it was going to happen.

mmk007.bsky.social•7 days ago

I volunteered last summer with Indivisible to spread the word about Project 2025. Reactions were mostly apathy and denial because Trump said he didn’t know anything about it.

jrrmack.bsky.social•7 days ago

happy about the EO open sourcing federally funded health data

zacster911.bsky.social•6 days ago

missdeemeanor.bsky.social•6 days ago

Theyve had 4 years to work all this...

popeyegordon.bsky.social•6 days ago

False. Legit published peer reviewed studies and articles conform to a global standard for science. While peer reviewed study results can be cherry picked, they all have the same basis in legitimacy until proven otherwise by better studies.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•6 days ago

Since the CDC has started posting this disclaimer on all pages with disease info, I think we can safely say that global standards are out the window on US government sites.

popeyegordon.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is the ONLY GOP policy I wholeheartedly agree with. We should never ignore 100 million years of mammalian evolution that made us what we are. Confused kids simply need guidance. This is a rule of science, not religions.

theevidencesays.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes, where is the outrage, that OUR public data, our public good resources that our tax dollars paid for, are be stolen in effect by the hiding or elimination by an invisible white collar army?

drearyday.bsky.social•7 days ago

we need states to start their own cdc like apparatus.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Where’s the money going to come from? States are going to be in budget crises as federal money dries up. Every penny will need to go to basic services like roads and schools.

drearyday.bsky.social•7 days ago

perhaps a watered down one that uses data from countries that still keep current data sets. anything better than this bollocks

drearyday.bsky.social•7 days ago

in fact, just using the UK or Canada CDC info would be better for Americans at this point.

caroleeena.bsky.social•6 days ago

But I take heart in the people like you who are going to great lengths to make sure the information people need is available to them. Thank you for that.

chenagrrl.bsky.social•7 days ago

I went looking for info on menopause and search function didn’t work.

rebekahwriter.bsky.social•7 days ago

Try ACOG. They might have what you need. https://www.acog.org

chenagrrl.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thank you. What a terrible decision to do this.

wtfinsanity2025.bsky.social•7 days ago

Recently I wanted to look a couple of things up for my own curiosity. It’s the first time in my life I wouldn’t open a government site to get the answer.

sisterswendy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wow.

bslkuye1.bsky.social•7 days ago

👀👀👀

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