The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal.

The move aims to ensure that no “forbidden terms” appear in the work. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

Inside Medicine
@luckytran but we Nazi name-callers were alarmist. After all, the Nazi movement was in the early 1900s! Precise semantics mean *everything* when you're collectively being poured into a meat grinder.

@ianto_jones @luckytran

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@leon_p_smith @luckytran I have not but will be viewing at the first opportunity.
@luckytran Institut für Sexualwissenschaft moment
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Banning "Biological (fe)male" is kinda funny since I've only ever heard transphobes use those terms.

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Because politics should always rule science and when scientists accept this they stop being scientists and become political tools.

@the5thColumnist @luckytran
Right. But even scientists have to eat!
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They should act as patriots and not comply.
Opinion | CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals

Banned terms must be scrubbed from CDC-authored manuscripts

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Destroy Science

how it look 1930's in germany

@luckytran if you follow this orders, you do exactly the same our grandparents do to stop the Nazis in 1933.
@luckytran @roknrol yes, this is how science is supposed to be done. /s

@luckytran Forbidden terms in science and banning books. The next step in the fascist playbook.

#Resist #Facism

@luckytran Who is doing the redacting, the Ministry of truth?
This is very unsettling.
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I fear that many people in academia fail to realise how dramatic the consequences of this censorship are going to be.
@agitatra
@wolfgangcramer @luckytran Well, my experience with censorship is quite the opposite. It makes things more interesting, especially since these lists are easy to circumvent. I mean who actually reads scientific publications beyond the abstract? This ignorance is completely reversed when documents are "forbidden fruit".
@agitatra
I really don't believe a cynical attitude helps in this particular situation.
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@wolfgangcramer @luckytran I hear you, but I have faith in the allure of the forbidden fruit.
@luckytran Holding off on new publication is bad enough, but retraction for bogus reasons like this is absolutely a violation of scientific ethics. Anyone who participates in retraction should be barred from future scientific publication.
@dalias @luckytran Retraction for censorship reasons is bad enough, but I would draw the line at re-submission of a censored manuscript. The authors hit by this should simply refuse to re-submit, damaging to their career as that may be. And I hope the journals involved will publish a censorship note for every paper apparently retracted in this way, even without the authors' consent.
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Book burning in 1933.
🖤♥️
@luckytran Erasing science is a loss for everyone.

@luckytran If I were in their position I might use synonyms (e.g. "pregnant individuals" instead of "pregnant people") or homoglyphs to make the banned terms impossible to search for (e.g. "ᏞԌΒΤ"). It would take someone reading through the entire paper to catch the substitutions.

I hope scientists take the opportunity to be sneaky or maliciously compliant/incompetent to defeat the intention of this order.

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It is what the Nazis would do… shame on Trump and his henchmen…

@luckytran A great way to promote the scientific journals of the rest of the world. Being a European, I only can thank #Trump for doing that. The European Gouverments were not able to come up with something similarly effective.
@luckytran Let's get started on the FOIA request to get that full email!
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Gravid.
Male-brained. Female-brained.
Two-spirits?
Eff it, just use Greek or Latin.
@luckytran and this reduces grocery prices or ends wars how exactly?
@luckytran Watch the brain drain towards Canada and Europe commence.

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The Nazis had a word for this process of bringing everything into alignment with the leader's ideology:

#Gleichschaltung

We are now seeing it implemented in the USA.

No more #FreeSpeech. No more #FreePress. No more #Freedom (unless you are a rich (and rich is the most important part) straight white male).

#Politics #ElonMusk #Trump #Nazi #GOP #US #USA #Meme #Memes #UnitedStates #Censorship #Banned

@luckytran If you'd told me a few weeks ago that the 1984/fascist BS would happen this quickly, I wouldn't have believed it.

3 options:
. Learn to love Big Brother.
. Fight to stop it. Resist.
. Leave USA and let the hyenas have it.

@luckytran This list of trans people terms, along with asylum seeking immigrants, BIPoC, and women in general, are the people that the right is frightened be normalized as full human beings and citizens in America. It is very inconvenient to them that these people exist. They are trying to erase people like my family members, rob science of discussing reality, so that these folks may not be talked about, and are not to be granted full human rights.

This won't erase us, and it won't remove us from the public forum. It won't make anyone cis/white/male richer except for the unsatisfiable oligarchs and their politician stooges. It will terrorize, dehumanize, disenfranchise and make miserable a small fraction of society... people who are just like you and me but who in order to feel free and fully themselves need to express their gender differently than what they were born with. It's a crime to refuse them full understanding and representation in our world.

@luckytran The Ministry of Truth was supposed to be a warning! :-(
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ça va sembler un peu childish mais très envie de taper dans des murs tout en rigolant nerveusement

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I wonder if scientists will start publishing like in social media

Very serious work about Tr4ansg3nder communities

@luckytran So this is a list of banned terms, y'all. What do we do with banned words?
@luckytran guys is it woke to be pregnant
@luckytran so forbidden terms is free speech?
@luckytran Does that only apply to those _exact_ terms? In that case I'd propose to honor the law by adding an additional „x“ to each word.
@luckytran science should not have forbidden terms
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But what if they just replaced the usages with the German translation?