The real reason is to hide public data from the public.
If they bury it, then they are admitting it’s dead...
Yup, wouldn’t want those of use with real degrees in physics/math/engineering exposing the marshmallow math, changed data, and outright cheating done by those “scientists” who couldn’t find real jobs.
“UC Santa Cruz’ Science and Justice Center”
Science and justice, when concatenated, are another way of saying there’s nothing of either contained within.
Any public or private educational institution that receives government funding for research purposes and denies access to any of that research either, current, past or future shall be denied any future funding for a minimum of five years. Further, the funds used for such studies as may have been denied will be refunded and a penalty of 300% of the monies allocated shall be assessed"
Gorilla archiving??????
That’s racist!! [/tennis_fan]
They’re doing it wrong.
Archiving isn't destroying. Besides, these are not federal agencies destroying data, these people are copying and archiving data from federal websites so that it can be archived outside the federal government. No violation of law here.
But, I will agree they are morons.
If they have done nothing wrong, then what do they have to hide?
EVIDENCE?......................
Are they archiving tortured data?
lol
save the fake data !
NSA has it anyway.
If Trump wants it, he can have it.
“deniers”= Infidels! This is a sacrament of their religion.
They have just become unreliabble. Grants will be canceled.
It’s clobberin’ time.
Go Trump!
I took a course in college with a renowned geneticist who taught all the pre-meds (I was not pre-med). He was brilliant, hilarious, highly philosophical, and passionate about the vocation of science. In answer to some artless "why not?" question from one of us about changing some protocol of investigation, he spat back a two-word answer: "Secret research!"
"What?" I asked.
"Secret research!" he hissed again with volcanic disdain, and would elaborate no further. Forty years later, I finally got it. "Secret research" means men of science trying to escape showing their results. It's for mediocrities and scheming tyrants like the Soviets, who built their entire agricultural policy around Lysenko, the fraudulent plant geneticist--because they liked the idea of both plants and men adapting to the decrees of the Central Committee. The Party literally starved tens of millions of people--many intentionally, and many not--because Lysenko's fraudulent theories didn't work. The Party blamed the Soviet crop failures on 70 years of bad weather.
Secret research is being unwilling to spread your cards on the table like every other man. In science, as in poker, neither the consequences of a) research results or b) a full house, king-high, are knowable until after you've revealed them. Someone may beat you. Or the experiment may show something you never expected, because of a random fact you wouldn't have noticed--except that you followed the rules and measured and reported what you were supposed to, diligently trusting in the scientific method. Some unexpected corner of your work might change lives, change history.
Science pursues truth. Therefore it is a holy vocation, and a trust placed on the investigator. Therefore science and its results don't belong to you, or to me, or anyone. Except under special circumstances in wartime, that's why we have no right to practice or tolerate secret research.
The Trump Administration should keep a copy and also transfer data copies to independent third parties just in case these liars try and change or hide the data as they did at the University of East Anglia in te UK.
Block Chain Technology seems a perfect fit for archiving sensitive data.
Hard for a peer-review when the peers can’t see the data.
What part of what they are doing violates the FRA?
You have to read carefully what they are doing. It is a total nothing-burger.
They are downloading stuff that is already archived on the false presumption that the Trump administration will “destroy evidence.”
They are simply playing to a hysterical audience who want to believe a lie.