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28 Mar 2017, 12:58 pm

In one of the least defensible actions of the Trump Administration, they have been deleting scientific data, presumably because it doesn't support their worldview:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -citations

There was a massive effort to back it all up, but some stuff probably did not get backed up, and is now lost forever.

Gee, thanks, Trump. [/sarc]


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28 Mar 2017, 1:18 pm

This person is embarrassing himself, and his agency.

All valuable data should be backed-up immediately.



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28 Mar 2017, 1:51 pm

If Trump is actually ordering this, this is more an "impeachable" offense than the apparent Russian collusion.

This is 1984, Big Brother stuff if this is occurring. I don't care what anybody else says.



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28 Mar 2017, 5:03 pm

They're floating a plan to sell off natural resources, in order to cover an odious, national debt. So, there is a political reason, for the purge, which has nothing to do with his worldview, imo. Say 'Murica, coddle minorities, and both sides are satisfied with that.



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28 Mar 2017, 5:16 pm

Well this is a major disgrace that is all there is to it.


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28 Mar 2017, 7:08 pm

Deleting data? I think you have Trump confused with his predecessor.



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28 Mar 2017, 7:09 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
If Trump is actually ordering this, this is more an "impeachable" offense than the apparent Russian collusion.

This is 1984, Big Brother stuff if this is occurring. I don't care what anybody else says.


What about Hillary and all of that uranium to Russia?



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28 Mar 2017, 9:13 pm

I find it a little hard to believe that scientists don't keep their own records and trust all their research data to be kept safe on a government website or on some obscure archiving site they have to go digging for.

The problem with all the massive amount of melodrama, hyperbole and sensationalism that gets generated where Trump is concerned, is everything like this gets suspected of being the same and at best gets taken with a grain of salt.