Episode 40: Why Good Data is Essential for Good Thinking (And What Happens When It's Taken Away)

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In this episode, April talks about why good data (current, accurate, and trustworthy) is so important to good thinking. She is perturbed about the current administration's deliberate attempts to delete, change, or hide critical government data. However, she is also hopeful that the many efforts to protect and preserve this data will be successful.

Episode 40 Show Notes--just citations because my explanations took up too much data...

https://www.getrightdata.com/blog/why-quality-matters-the-10-biggest-data-quality-disasters

https://www.smorescience.com/data-driven-life-how-information-shapes-our-daily-decisionsexamples-of-data-in-everyday-life/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2025/05/06/newark-airport-radio-radar-failures/83471323007/

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/white-house-covid-web-page-page-supporting-lab/story?id=120956514

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31012025/trump-administration-war-on-science/

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project-foia/2025-02-06/disappearing-data-trump?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.rheumatologyadvisor.com/news/key-cdc-health-websites-vanish-following-trump-orders/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/removal-pages-cdc-website-brings-confusion-dismay?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5288113/cdc-website-health-data-trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-missing-murdered-indigenous-peoples-report-removed?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge

https://libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449575&p=10778647

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Government_watchdog_groups_in_the_United_States

https://journalistsresource.org/home/researchers-rush-to-preserve-federal-health-databases-before-they-disappear-from-government-websites/