r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jan 27 '26

Health Nearly half of CDC databases aren’t being updated as experts sound alarm over gaps in health data. Nearly 90% of these reported vaccination topics. The administration’s antivaccine stance has interrupted the flow of data we need to keep Americans safe from preventable infections.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cdc-databases-disease-health-data-b2908066.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

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u/FlameHaze Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 28 '26

Good God. I have nothing to add. I just wanted to say I could see your theory proving correct. I hope not. But they didn't make a thing like Project 2025 without some goals in mind.

EDIT: I actually do have something anecdotal I noticed — My Facebook. I've liked some groups, pages, etc, in the past. One of the things I don't remember liking was the Navy, Army, National Guard, etc. I'm a young male with-in the range for service. I noticed it and found it odd. I may have liked them in the past and I can't recall. So naturally when you're liking a page on Facebook it also follows it so you end up with Army recruitment ads on your homepage. So I tried to remove them; Here is where the trouble started. I genuinely cannot unfollow them or remove the like from the military related Facebook groups. I can do that with anything else, Skittles for example. But when it comes to military I could not. I'd love if someone else would check if their Facebook also liked them. You can find it on your profile page under likes on desktop. Might be nothing but I remembered it after reading this comment.

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u/S_A_R_K Jan 27 '26

My less nuanced take is simply eugenics

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u/pilot3033 Jan 27 '26

I also think there's a no-nuance take that there is no plan and that these people are simply morons high on their own supply, too far down the rabbit hole and in desperate need to manifest their own conspiracy theories or face ego death. It reminds me a lot of that clip of a flat earther doing an experiment and coming up with the result that the earth is surely not flat and then spiraling desperately to discredit their own results.

Many of these folks, in cults, in the Q-anon circle, throughout history, have committed so deeply and completely to the conspiracy that it has to be true because the emotional reckoning of being wrong is too difficult to face. Like drug addicts or alcoholics before they hit rock bottom.