Reuters: CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says:
The withdrawal order, first reported by the Inside Medicine Substack, goes beyond an initial directive on Jan. 21 that federal health agencies pause their own public communications to allow for a review of those materials by Trump appointees.
Inside Medicine published a list of specific words targeted for removal in the communications review, including gender, transgender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and nonbinary. The federal official said that such a list went out from CDC to its divisions.
The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. If CDC scientists are co-authors on a paper that originated outside of the agency, they are asked to take their names off the paper, the official said.
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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 37 pts · 1y
Nothing says democracy like rewriting scientific papers to suit a bigoted agenda.
str82L@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
“If you don’t test, you don’t have any cases,”
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
We have always been at war with East Asia.
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
There needs to be general strikes and protests in response to these authoritarian acts.
icenando@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Well, what are you waiting for? :) Jokes aside, it's scary what's happening in the US. Pure 1984.
inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
No, pure 1933.
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
I'm not American. If that happens here in Canada I'll be helping organize.
Dirtdog@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Fuck sakes. You guys sound like Soviet Russia.
BranBucket@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I'm sure they'd eventually expand the list, but what's shown on the screen could be thwarted with a thesaurus inside of thirty seconds. Which once again just goes to show how fucking shortsighted and dumb these bastards really are. They can't handle written communication at a third-grade level.