Data manipulation by the US Government, particularly when hidden, is a crisis—it makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions. Further, such changes, when discovered, reduce trust in the data that underly public health and, consequently, health interventions.
The “Ministry of Truth” has been busy in Shiny-land for a long time. That’s why you see so many Fox Noise “personalities” appointed to high office: they are experts at rewriting the past, and making people believe the new narrative.
For 25 years, a group of the country’s top experts has been fastidiously tracking the ways that climate change threatens every part of the United States. Their findings informed the National Climate Assessments, a series of congressionally mandated reports released every four years that translated the science into accessible warnings for policymakers and the public. But that work came to a halt this spring when the Trump administration abruptly dismissed all 400 experts working on the next edition. Then, on June 30, all of the past reports vanished too, along with the federal website they lived on.
Management makes sure that only what it wants spoken, is spoken.
Falsifying economic data, such as inflation rates, can potentially save the government massive amounts of money. That’s low-hanging fruit. I’m really worried about that.
Wendy
It could simply be the “JC” echo chamber effect. I have commented before, how the pump seal company paid a consultant to produce a report showing their standing in the industry, vs their competitors. The “JCs” didn’t like what the report said, so they questioned the consultant’s methodology, and threw the report in the trash.
“A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in the dataset title and description…”
But that was the big change looked at in the article. The quoted part was the first two sentences of the abstract. If there were something more important changed I suspect they would have mentioned it.
The implications stretch beyond statistical concerns. Survey designers distinguish between gender, a social identity, and sex, a biological classification, because the two terms capture related but not identical information. Many transgender and non‑binary respondents, for example, select a gender option that differs from the sex recorded on their birth certificate.
If the government retroactively re‑labels a column without clarifying whether the underlying question also changed, analysts cannot tell whether a fluctuation in the male‑to‑female ratio reflects genuine demographic shifts, a wording tweak, or recoding behind the scenes. Public health officials may then allocate resources on a faulty premise, and medical guidelines that depend on demographic baselines can drift off target.
I think of it this way, maybe its different than most. However, small and insignificant it is then why go through the trouble to change it. Now, consider its a mistake or something non-nefarious but do not rely on lancetlot to find all the rewritten works. It is up to everyone to figure out where else there is this type of activity. Clearly, if this happens for such a small matter it has been happening extensively in the past. A Peoples History of America is a good read explaining how to dictate narratives. The “winners” ultimately write and rewrite history, not to say it will remain in stone.
Don’t accept it and figure out where else the lies are because they stink and will continue to show up until we control the dogs.
Last fall, I attended a lecture on censorship of books in public libraries. I asked a question, which was inspired by my local library tossing about half of it’s books, leaving only an electronic version on Hoopla to read. Are, I wondered, the electronic versions secure from being changed. Wow, did that set off one of the librarians in the audience. Yes, books are being changed, without the author’s consent. Supposedly the works are being changed because the language or characterizations aren’t “PC”. The fact remains, if you want to read what the author actually wrote, you need to find a 30-40 year old hard copy.
The Thought Police, and the Ministry of Truth, have been at work for some time, adjusting “facts” to fit the narrative TPTB want propagated.
Sometimes, their work is clumsy, and easily spotted.
