link roundup

• Trump is damaging the federal statistical system. This is incredibly dangerous; the US economy runs on timely, reliable economic data.

• Saloni Dattani writes eloquently on how the loss of foreign aid will kill people, and how donations aren’t enough but they help.

• Cancers that primarily affect women get less funding than cancers that primarily affect men.

• A train line between Ashington and Newcastle reopened after sixty years. Passenger numbers are five times what had been predicted - suggesting that perhaps the UK underestimates demand on currently unserved train routes.

• Alex Chalmers has put together a reading list on nuclear power.

• The introduction of USAID’s Demographic and Health Surveys - now terminated by the Trump administration - increased the number of papers about places that had DHS data available, but decreased the number of papers about that country written by researchers in that country.

• Getting richer doesn’t make you more likely to vote Conservative.

• Here is a comparison of the price of cheese per pound to the price of vehicles.