• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Bryant told The Trace that the CDC’s decision to restore the numbers was a “shame.” He dismissed the figures as “nothing more than gross estimates based on limited surveys.” Hughes, meanwhile, called the agency’s move “disappointing but unsurprising,” adding, “It is the politically motivated laundering of disinformation that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s approach to all scientific inquiry, and gun violence is no exception.”

    Funny coming from the guy who runs the GVA which includes school gun violence that isn’t researched at all. Yet reported as fact. So much so that even NPR reported on how badly the GVA did.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent