人口普查禁用隐私保护工具引发争议

Critics say goal is to reduce immigration and add Republican seats in Congress A mong the many unfounded claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump is his assertion that the 2020 census was biased toward Democrats. The public paid little attention to the claim, but scientists who work with federal statistical data are sounding the alarm on Trump’s proposed solution, which they see as the latest example of his administration’s efforts to politicize science. JEFFREY MERVIS ILLUSTRATION: MICROSTOCKHUB/ISTOCKPHOTO, ADAPTED BY M. ATAROD/SCIENCE “I realize that many of us have ‘outrage fatigue,’ but this particular outrage hits extremely close to home,” Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote in a recent blog post. …