Dr. Lucky Tran Feb 2, 2025

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.

Show threadCassandrichFeb 2, 2025
@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.
Show threadMartin Vermeer (not Jesus)
@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.
Feb 2, 2025 at 9:04amWeb