3mo ago

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

www.propublica.org

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

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The right wing got tired of being constantly proven wrong by facts and science so they've decided to destroy facts and science.
the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working
That's a feature, not a bug: the entire point is to make it very hard to see the effects of the regime's policies, so that they can just claim everything is working as intended and the rest of the world won't be able to verify it.
Russia has been doing the same for years (well, decades really). They fixed their HIV epidemic by stopping the collection of data on infections
edit: ah, and the article says as much. That'll teach me to comment before reading
- That’ll teach me to comment before reading
  That's okay. Given people's habit of just reading headlines and then commenting, your comment has a better chance to be read than the article... 😉
We only have so many COVID cases because we test so much! We need to do fewer tests!