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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by brlewis on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:44PM (#23237791)
Is the quote below the one you're describing? It's strongly worded, but I don't see how it would hurt her ability to be seen as credible.

“As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it,” she wrote.

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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by kaitai on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:26PM (#23239014)
Yeah, I'm already seeing reports from other sources that the Florida data is now harder to access -- data going missing or unavailable for download, site crashing [1]. That would tend to support her remarks.

[1] https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorshi...

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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by throwaway5752 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:33PM (#23239116)
This is additional context: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495295-florida-orde...

Further context: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medi...

A spokesperson for the health department’s Hillsborough County office said a lag in reporting accounts for some of the difference. The health department is also excluding some snowbirds and other seasonal residents, along with visitors who died in Florida, from its count. The medical examiners are including anyone who died in Florida.

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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by NotSammyHagar on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:33PM (#23239837)
They stopped counting snowbirds cause that made the counts go down magically. Just like when the state prohibited medical examiners from giving results out (which is unprecedented in Florida). It's very clear they are going step by step to hide the true death count.
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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by mshroyer on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:16PM (#23241457)
I just downloaded the entire dataset. All the same data seems to be there. Confusingly, this includes the "EventDate" field that she had been asked to remove.
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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by downerending on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:16PM (#23238913)
I would not willingly hire or work with someone that wrote that in a public forum.
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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by thanksforfish on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:27PM (#23240469)
It reads to me like a person who believes they have integrity. I'd willingly hire and seek opportunities to work with people who value their integrity.

What about the statement bothers you?

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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by downerending on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:21PM (#23240987)
She's publicly asserting that one or more of her colleagues will lie when they take over her role. She literally cannot predict the future behavior of these people, and is thus acting in bad faith.

Life is short, and I don't get paid enough to deal with people like that.

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Re:Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-... by elliekelly on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:00PM (#23241325)
Where, specifically, does she assert that they will lie? She says they won’t be as transparent and she says they won’t be as accessible. Neither of those are accusations of an intent to lie.

And for what it’s worth, both of those accusations seem to have already played out as she expected. You can read more in comments in this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239014

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