Executive narrative capture of agencies

When a sitting administration alters or sanitizes an agency’s public statements about high‑stakes evidence (for example, omitting human attribution in a record‑heat release), it is a form of 'narrative capture' that degrades science communication, erodes public trust, and shifts policy debate away from evidence‑based responses. — The phenomenon matters because it changes how the public and foreign partners read official science, weakens institutional credibility needed for regulation and adaptation, and creates durable precedents for politicized framing of empirical facts.