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Over the past week, the Trump administration has ordered changes at our biggest federal science agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.

The news is coming fast and furious, and it can feel hard to keep up.

Our next guest is here to help.

Anil Oza is a reporter for Statt and MIT based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Anil has been keeping close tabs on what's

happening at the agencies and is here to explain. Anil, welcome to Science Friday. Hi, Flores. Good to be

here. Okay, so late last week, we started getting news that data on the CDC's website was disappearing.

First of all, what disappeared? Yeah, that's right. So late last week on

Friday, we were seeing the CDC scrub a lot of the data sets from their website. And so normally,

anyone can go to the CDC's website and download data sets for a whole slew of different health

issues. But to sort of comply with some of Trump's executive orders by 5 p.m. on Friday,

they were trying to scrub a lot of these data sets to comply with two of these executive orders

that Trump put in place. One, to sort of remove DEI, and so that would remove mentions of race

and ethnicity, and another to sort of deal with, I believe what he calls gender ideology,

and so that would remove mentions of sexual orientation, of gender identity.

And so one of the datasets was the Youth Behavior Survey, which measures gender and sexual orientation in teenagers.

And a lot of data sets, even if they're not sort of expressly about racial inequities, they include data about people's

race. And so a lot of these would run sort of a foul of this executive order. I also saw that

there were data sets about things like HIV and sexual health and tuberculosis and reported

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