News Is the Age of Scientific Censure Imminent?

[zoobyshoe]

From yesterday's Washington Post:

Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...under-trump/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.1c6889832524

Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.

The efforts include a “https://ischool.utoronto.ca/content/guerrilla-archiving-event-saving-environmental-data-trump ” event in Toronto, where experts will copy irreplaceable public data, meetings at the University of Pennsylvania focused on how to download as much federal data as possible in the coming weeks, and a collaboration of scientists and database experts who are compiling an online site to harbor scientific information...

But today's surprise development is:

Donald Trump's transition team is backing away from a controversial questionnaire sent to the Department of Energy demanding names of employees who assisted in the Obama administration's climate policy efforts.

ABC News obtained last week the 74-point memo, which asks for names of staff members who worked on climate-related projects.

The Department of Energy hit back on Tuesday with a statement saying that the memo "left many in our workforce unsettled" and that it would not comply with questions asking for names of individuals.

DOE officials "respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department," agency spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder said in a statement.

The Trump transition team has repeatedly declined to respond to ABC News' requests for comment, but in a statement to ABC News today, an official said, "The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol. The person who sent it has been properly counseled." ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...tionnaire-energy-department/story?id=44190652

Which leaves me extremely curious about the identity of the transition team member who went rogue and issued an unauthorized questionnaire to the DOE.

 

[Bystander]

"experts will copy irreplaceable public data, "
Oxymoron.

 

[BillTre]

"experts will copy irreplaceable public data, "
Oxymoron.

How so? I think you way over state.
These are big database sets, but just a couple of books someone might have laying around.
Maybe you have no respect for the data.