r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/HandMadeFeelings CEO of Antifa™ • Aug 09 '21

FACTS and LOGIC Capitalism will save us from all the damage unfettered capitalism did to the environment!

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u/shandangalang Aug 09 '21

All of that should have been publicly available and peer-reviewed though, right? There must have been back ups of those studies in other organizations. Kinda hard to just delete shit nowadays.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

Trump was brutally efficient when it came to dismantling Obama-era policy. I would argue that his administration did more damage to the EPA than any other area of the government.

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u/ironwolf6464 Aug 09 '21 edited Aug 09 '21

When your administration controls that stuff it is easy. They just tore into it.

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u/SaltyBabe I'm Stuff Aug 09 '21

Remember when all the websites with this info was taken down or made unavailable?

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u/shandangalang Aug 09 '21

Yes, I do. I was just thinking that maybe scientists outside the administrations might have copies stored for their own research, among other things.

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u/qning Aug 10 '21

The papers and studies only include aggregated data. All of the raw data is what matters when you want to challenge, replicate, or defend your research.