The Food and Drug Administration ( #FDA) has already lost 19% of its staff, the Centers for Disease Control ( #CDC) 18%, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( #CMS) 9%.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115145
Update. "The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html
"Thousands of…govt web pages [have] been taken down or modified, including content about vaccines, hate crimes, low-income children, opioid addiction and veterans, before a court order temporarily blocked part of the sweeping erasure. A Justice Department database tracking criminal charges and convictions linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was removed. Segments of data sets are gone, some of the experts who produced them were dismissed, and many mentions of words like “Black,” “women” and “discrimination” have evaporated…“This is not a cost-cutting mechanism,” said Kenny Evans, who studies science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and runs the White House Scientists Archive at the school. 'This slide toward secrecy and lack of transparency is an erosion of democratic norms.'"
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Update. "Marks Says He Was Forced Out of #FDA for Trying to Protect #Vaccine Safety #Data"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/fdageneral/114998
"Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation's top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant #HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Related. "Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites"
https://journalistsresource.org/home/researchers-rush-to-preserve-federal-health-databases-before-they-disappear-from-government-websites/
"Tips for preserving websites:
* To find the missing websites, go to Wayback Machine and type in the website’s URL in the search bar.
* If you’re concerned that certain websites or web pages may be removed, you can suggest federal websites and content that end in .gov, .mil and .com to the End of Term Web Archive.
* You can suggest federal climate and environmental databases to Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.
* You can suggest databases to The Data Liberation Project, which is run by MuckRock and Big Local News.
* Tell science journalist Maggie Koerth what CDC data you've downloaded and whether you've made them publicly available...."
Related. "Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00374-y
#CDC#FDA#Medicine#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics