{"id":5967,"date":"2025-08-09T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/what-trump-firing-bls-chief-really-means-health-science-truth\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:02:44","slug":"what-trump-firing-bls-chief-really-means-health-science-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/what-trump-firing-bls-chief-really-means-health-science-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Trump\u2019s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner puts crucial health data at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: Trump\u2019s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner puts crucial health data at risk
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In early July, I began teaching a summer course: introductory biostatistics for an accelerated master\u2019s of public health program. Most of the students are clinicians, and biostatistics is (understandably) not often the favorite course. On day one, I told them that one measure of the power of statistics is the way unscrupulous leaders attempt to shut them down when they do not like what the data reveal.<\/p>\n

That lesson has taken a new significance recently, when\u00a0President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>\u00a0(BLS), Erika McEntarfer, after her agency released monthly jobs data that he found unfavorable.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: Trump\u2019s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner puts crucial health data at risk In early July, I began teaching a summer course: introductory biostatistics for an accelerated master\u2019s of public health program. Most of the students are clinicians, and biostatistics is (understandably) not often the favorite course. On day one, I told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2177,2143,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-first-opinion","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}