re: Trump mandates all EPA data to be reviewed prior to release

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He says he was speaking about existing scientific information on the EPA website that is under review by members of the Trump administration's transition team. He says new work by the agency's scientists is subject to the same "temporary hold" as other kinds of public releases, which he said would likely be lifted by Friday. He says there is no mandate to subject studies or data to political review.

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First of all, as someone with a science background, Im not sure how it would even be possible to politically review any scientific paper. A lot of published papers can be hard to read and understand if you don't have the background to understand the data and conclusions you are being presented when you read a paper. The only way any of this story and this thread makes sense to me is from the standpoint of reviewing data to determine if some EPA studies have actual scientific merit or if they are studies that don't really have a true scientific value but rather drive a political agenda. All published scientific studies should be read with a bit of skepticism. It's what helps weed out good science from bad.

The other thing I'm curious about is what kind of review process do typical EPA studies undergo before the results are released. Typically when studies are published in journals or magazines, they undergo a serious review by editors beforehand and if data for instance is missing or there are questions about the study it won't get published. Even after publishing, other scientist who happen to read the study can become skeptics and call into question the veracity of the study's claims.