If you think it sounds familiar, you don’t be wrong. When Trump took over the presidency in 2017, scientists, archists and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania raced to save the data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Noaa. Another group in Michigan, also fearing that EPA and Noaa websites would lose valuable information Similar movement. Websites were supported by the Internet archive; Immense data sets have been “worn” for secure storage.
At that time, scientists were not sure that the incoming administration would try to delete all information. It was more like a premonition that turned out to be predictable when, managed by the appointed Trump and the administrator of the Scott Pruitt agency, EPA began to delete information about climate change from its website in April 2017. “reflect the approach of new leadership. “
According to 2017 and 2021, over 1,400 pages related to climate change on government websites have been changed or less available, in accordance with Compiled data by Edgi. This, notes Gretchen Gehrke, who runs the Edgi website monitoring program, is not a “comprehensive list of changes” because some changes – such as such changes removal “Climate change” from EPA.gov navigation – only are calculated once, but affect several other pages.
“I think there is a lot more awareness about the uncertainty of federal information after the experience of Trump’s first administration,” says Gehrke. “Observing how Trump’s campaign is really obsessed with Trans and knowing the history of suppressing the Trump administration information, people were and are right to fear that this information is threatened.”
That is why it concerns Beccia. Data sets, such as those in YRB, are few, and their loss can be catastrophic for those who want to know about health and prosperity of trans youth in America.
Although YRB is now Live on the CDC websiteThe Department of Health and Human Services has disappeared briefly, along with the data on the subject order From the Office of Personnel Management to comply with Trump’s executive orders.
Information returned in mid -February, when US District Judge John Bates, responding to Claim He granted a ephemeral order from Doctors for America, and the site was restored. The reservation at the top of the YRBS page now says: “All information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate”, the addition “this page does not reflect the biological reality, and therefore the administration and this department rejects.”
Tazlina Mannix worked for the YRBS program in Alaska from 2015 to 2023, both as a survey coordinator and a data manager. He notes that even if CDC stores online data, reservations like this on the website make it tough for researchers to do their work. Collecting public health data is based on relations with people in health faculties and school districts. Giving these people any reasons to hesitate, can “bring you back to zero,” he says. “When I saw for the first time [that disclaimer]I was so terrified. The language is so extreme and just bad. “