anil oza
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science journalist @stat covering health equity, the nih, and interaction btwn science & society | also: npr, nature, sciam, science, science news, cornell daily sun (he/him) (signal: aniloza.16)
![screenshot of story, reading "“It’s very weird because there’s no legal implication to those [comments] being on or off of regulations.gov,” said Stuart Shapiro, dean of the Rutgers School of Planning and Public Policy and a former OMB official who has written about the role public comments play in shaping regulation. “There’s no reason to do it, unless it was offensive to the head of OMB there, which I suspect it might have [been].” Adding more confusion to the matter, there are still some comments on the docket that mention Vought and Trikafta.
The removal of comments from public view also keys into a tension in the federal rulemaking process that has emerged with its democratization in the digital age. The tagline on regulations.gov reads “Your Voice in Federal Decision Making.” But most comments are submitted by policy wonks, pointing out edge cases in which policies may go awry or unintended consequences result from proposals.
“The sort of prototypical agency regulation is sort of highly technocratic, highly technical. It’s just filling in the details. But every now and then you see these rules that punch through, and they punch through for a reason, right? People care about this stuff,” Dooling said."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttkobn5b4lsaodrjlwiymcne/bafkreiepwb7tm3owt32kvi7m53r6g7uwz6upez42vrxdnkxgfwjfvev2bi)
