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The specifics:

The data is not disappearing. The data and the related tools have been temporarily removed to be cleaned and brought into compliance with Trump’s executive order (basically removing “gender” or replacing it with “sex”)

That should be the intellectually honest title and that is what is happening.

So lets check in 3 weeks. If data and tools are not back then we can say and complain about data disappearing.

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It's The Atlantic. They have no interest in being honest about the topic, telling you why the data is unavailable, or saying when it will be back (once they update the language that bookends the studies). The purpose is to make you angry and think they're burning data because they hate science.

>(basically removing “gender” or replacing it with “sex”)

There's no Gender or Sex component to the CDC's SVI methodology why was that dataset removed?

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/community-stress-resource-center/p...

It's you who is being intellectually dishonest.

I checked some old data from the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and it seems likely that it was removed to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI executive order.

I completely agree that SVI becomes less useful if you strip out the “Racial and Ethnic Minority Status” variable. Just wanted to provide an intellectually honest answer about why this page was taken down.

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