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I’m Confused: Are We Afraid of Truth?
Why is valuable information lost, and are government health datasets removed, manipulated, or not posted as planned?
The Lost Data Debate Out of Nowhere About Why Erasing Taxpayer-Funded Data Matters for Health, Well-Being, and the Future
Reviewing a recent scientific paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, listening to a podcast from Brooking, and reading several news articles confused me.
I thought we were in the age of information dissemination and freedom, but my understanding from credible sources painted a different picture. This situation deeply concerns me as a person who studied information management and made my living with vital information.
To make sense of what I am trying to say, just imagine you are trying to fix something important — like your health, education, or the environment without adequate data and the correct information. This will be like trying to assemble a complicated puzzle with missing pieces. How can we expect to solve problems or make progress when the information we need is out of reach?
Recent resources I reviewed pointed out that over recent years, valuable information has quietly…
