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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

TBD | Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Using Github, you can watch as government websites are brought into compliance with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Out goes the word “equity;” in comes “fair.” And health and science data, once publicly available, disappears. Guest: Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media. Jeremy Prokop, data science advisor in the Midwest Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.1

Terms and conditions apply. Just a quick heads up that this episode is about a fast-moving news story.

0:35.4

Some things might have changed by the time you listen. Also,

0:38.9

I've got a little cold. I sound scratchy. Okay, here's the show.

0:48.0

I want you to imagine that you just had a baby. You're in the hospital, delighted and exhausted, welcoming a wonderful new

0:56.9

little person into the world. But your baby has mysterious symptoms. Maybe ones the pediatricians

1:04.2

aren't familiar with. And that is where Jeremy Procop comes in. I'm a data science advisor for a Midwest hospital system.

1:13.0

I also am an associate professor at one of the universities in the Midwest as well.

1:18.7

Jeremy's job is to use data to try to figure out what is going on and how to help your baby.

1:25.7

So you know about one in 14 individuals has a rare disease.

1:29.0

And so we'll go in and we'll do a genetic sequencing on the patient

1:33.3

and then start saying, what is that?

1:34.9

Sometimes we get lucky and the answer sits right there.

1:37.5

Sometimes it's way more complex.

1:40.0

And that can mean checking against data and reports

1:42.6

from the Centers for Disease Control

1:44.2

or the National Institutes of Health.

1:46.7

If I can connect a patient here to a patient that might be sitting in another country,

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