If you think this looks familiar, you are not wrong. When Trump took over the presidency in 2017, scientists, archives and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania moved to save data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NOAA. Another group in Michigan also lost valuable information for fear of EPA and NOAA websites. The websites were supported by the Internet archive. The large data set was “packaged” for safe maintenance.
At that time, the researchers were not sure that the input government was seeking to erase any information. It was more like a hunt, which proved that when it was led by Trump’s appointment and the Scott Provit Agency’s appointment, the Environmental Protection Agency began to remove climate change information from its website in April 2017, “to reflect the new leadership approach”.
Between 2017 and 2021, according to data provided by EDGI, more than 1,400 pages of climate change have been modified or available on government websites. Gretchen Gehrke, who leads the EDGI website monitoring program, is not a “complete list of changes” because some changes – such as deleting “climate change” from epa.gov navigation page – only count once but affect several other pages.
“I think after the experience of the first Trump administration, there is more awareness of federal information accuracy,” says Gehrke. “Watching the Trump campaign is really obsessed with the transgressors, and knowing the history of suppression of the Trump administration’s information, people were rightly worried that the information would be at risk.”
That’s why it’s very worried. A set of data such as the items in the YRBs and losing it can be catastrophic for those who want to inform the health and well -being of trans -youth in the United States.
However, YRBS is currently briefly disappeared live on the CDC website live briefly, along with information on the Food and Drug Administration and websites of the Ministry of Health and Human Services, earlier this year following the order of managing the staff, which was reviewed by Trump’s executive orders.
This information issued a temporary containment order in mid -February when the US district judge, John Bates responded to the US doctors’ petition, and the site was re -awarded. “Any information on this page that promotes gender ideology is very inaccurate,” he said, “This page does not reflect biological reality, and so the government and this section reject it.”
Tazlina Mannix worked for the YRBS program in Alaska from 2015 to 2023, as a survey coordinator and a data manager. He points out that even if the CDC holds data online, deprivation of responsibilities such as the site on the site now makes it harder for researchers to do. Collecting public health data relies on relationships with people in the health sectors and school districts. He says giving any reason to doubt can “turn you back to zero.” “When I first saw [that disclaimer]I am so frightened that the language is very severe, and it is also wrong. “
