There is a through line from
"If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases"
Trump, Allentown, June 2020
to the ongoing steps by a know-nothing administration to dismantle instruments of measurement, because data poses a threat to its grievance-driven political priorities.
Joshua Weitz
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
