Posted on 09/18/2025 6:25:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee made up of scientific experts that was axed by the Trump administration earlier this year is resurrecting itself and meeting Thursday with no official blessing or formal ties to the statistical agency.
The reconstitution of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, rechristened with an “Independent” in front of its name, is a defiant gesture by the research community against the Trump administration’s elimination last winter of three advisory committees made up of outside experts from private industry and academia.
The decision to get the committee members back together is the latest effort by statisticians, demographers and other researchers to challenge statistical-system changes that they see as worrisome since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January for a second term.
Since then, data sets related to gender, sexual orientation, health, climate change and diversity have disappeared from federal websites, and workers and contractors who had been data guardians at statistical agencies either have departed or been forced out by efforts to shrink the federal government. Last month, Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency made downward revisions to the number of jobs created in the spring.
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“ and meeting Thursday with no official blessing or formal ties to the statistical agency.”
So they’re wasting their time and money.
Good.
L
also known as a circle jerk
“Experts?” Snort. Yeah, uh huh, that’s the ticket.
scientific experts , ROFL
I wonder where their funding originates.
Strictly PR so they can go on MSNBC and CNN and blab how Trump is a dictator.
More likley they are planning sedition.
Another addition to the Obama “shadow government”. 🙄
Those are the ONLY questions that need to be on a census questionnaire.
It is these census statistics that the Democrats have used to sow
division and hatred between Americans, rather than to unite us.
Funded by Soros directly to give PR cover to his ideological statements.
If they are so damned concerned about the census, they can run their own census with their own money. No laws against that......................
Sounds insurrection-y to me.
I can’t think of one thing the democrats HAVEN’T used to sow division...
So where are these unofficial idiots getting their data if they don’t have access to government records? FOIA requests, wasting more tax dollars?
Proving they are a pollical propaganda machine and not a legitimate “scientific” group.
Claiming their dogmas are “science” is one of the Alt Left’s favorite propaganda tactics
They need to protect the con.
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