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https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction"The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals, Inside Medicine has learned. The move aims to ensure that no forbidden terms appear in the work. The policy includes manuscripts that are in the revision stages at journal (but not officially accepted) and those already accepted for publication but not yet live.
In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female, according to an email sent to CDC employees (see below).
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The policy goes beyond the previously reported pause of the CDCs own publications, including Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), which has seen two issues go unreleased since January 16, marking the first publication gap of any kind in approximately 60 years. Emerging infectious Diseases and Preventing Chronic Disease, the CDCs other major publications, also remain under lock and key, but have not yet been affected because they are monthly releases and both were released as scheduled in January, prior to President Trumps inauguration. The policy also goes beyond the general communications gag order that already prevents any CDC scientist from submitting any new scientific findings to the public."...(more)
Celerity
(54,431 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,316 posts)Botany
(77,336 posts)Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female, according to an email sent to CDC employees.
Ray Bruns
(6,378 posts)AverageJoe
(2,427 posts)Liberal In Texas
(16,274 posts)MiHale
(13,037 posts)Its so fucking ridiculous.
kerouac2
(1,496 posts)Why not say pregnant women?
That being said, this is absolute mad house.
Scientists must feel like Dr. Zira and Cornelius.
Response to kerouac2 (Reply #5)
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Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)kerouac2
(1,496 posts)So they were using inclusive language, in their attack to ban dei... Kinda odd of them.
Prairie Gates
(8,174 posts)Scientists have to remove all the listed terminology from any paper they have in the pipeline.
AverageJoe
(2,427 posts)that had been in use for a while.
kerouac2
(1,496 posts)Duh, I didn't read that right first time thru. That was on the list of forbidden words... I thought they were using the term themselves.. Thanks lol.
Jit423
(1,568 posts)This is the most and bitterest collective insanity since Jim Jones and Jonestown.
mdbl
(8,661 posts)what else can i say?
LymphocyteLover
(9,853 posts)Solly Mack
(96,945 posts)orangecrush
(30,328 posts)Right?
(Sarc)
Tanuki
(16,448 posts)..."More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents. The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed. Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.
The government of the Soviet Union (USSR) supported the campaign, and Joseph Stalin personally edited a speech by Lysenko in a way that reflected his support for what would come to be known as Lysenkoism, despite his skepticism toward Lysenko's assertion that all science is class-orientated in nature. Lysenko served as the director of the USSR's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Other countries of the Eastern Bloc including the People's Republic of Poland, the Republic of Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic accepted Lysenkoism as the official "new biology", to varying degrees, as did the People's Republic of China for some years."...(more)
yardwork
(69,368 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,837 posts)Tell me again how no place else on earth has American freedoms.
tanyev
(49,306 posts)😒
Prairie Gates
(8,174 posts)Johonny
(26,199 posts)Whereas transgender are no longer considered human. But still many people complain Democrats spent too much time defending the helpless instead of focusing on the issues. Dudes, the attempt to exterminate by definition a class of people is the issue!
FuzzyDicePHL
(737 posts)nt
AverageJoe
(2,427 posts)to mandate only politically acceptable conclusions to the research.
Passages
(4,173 posts)How is this not a 1st amendment fight??
underpants
(196,526 posts)This is crazy
3825-87867
(1,941 posts)Or that no one would really do that!
3825-87867
(1,941 posts)With 14 gone...
The only safe Amendment is Number 2...for now.
Kind of ironic that it's "Number 2!"
Thanx Roberts, et al.
So Far!
wolfie001
(7,686 posts)And his accomplice wifey too I might add.
Joinfortmill
(21,181 posts)it was that easy. I feel like weeping.
Irish_Dem
(81,326 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,326 posts)It must all conform to the political standards set forth by the government.
Science, truth, data are not important.
wolfie001
(7,686 posts)Sounds like an edict from any random emperor from 1000 years ago. What a brainless fool.
dalton99a
(94,194 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,558 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,694 posts)The CDC should be able to use relevant terms FFS.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,694 posts)Apologies to any this upsets.
Needs to be called our for what it seems likely to become.
IMO
travelingthrulife
(5,197 posts)we have a madman in charge and we can do NOTHING to stop him save extrajudicial action.