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Tanuki

(16,448 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 07:53 AM Feb 2025

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of all submitted research

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 CDC’s 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 CDC’s 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 Trump’s 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)
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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of all submitted research (Original Post) Tanuki Feb 2025 OP
madness! Celerity Feb 2025 #1
... SammyWinstonJack Feb 2025 #2
A list of forbidden terms? What part of a fascism is missing from this? Botany Feb 2025 #3
The part that's missing is where Winston Smith is working overtime at the Ministry of Truth. Ray Bruns Feb 2025 #6
That was my first thought n/t AverageJoe Feb 2025 #18
This from the people who were complaining about censorship. Liberal In Texas Feb 2025 #30
This is almost impossible to comment on... MiHale Feb 2025 #4
Pregnant people? kerouac2 Feb 2025 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Demovictory9 Feb 2025 #8
Some trans men retain the ability to.give birth. "Pregnant people" was an inclusive term Demovictory9 Feb 2025 #9
Thank you! kerouac2 Feb 2025 #12
No, they are banning that term in their efforts against inclusivity Prairie Gates Feb 2025 #19
They were singling out inclusive language AverageJoe Feb 2025 #20
Omg yes I see that after another read kerouac2 Feb 2025 #43
Have any articles of impeachment been filed yet? Any for any members of the SCOTUS? WTF is going on? Jit423 Feb 2025 #7
Weird and bizarre mdbl Feb 2025 #10
fuck the Nazis... goddamn this is evil LymphocyteLover Feb 2025 #11
Shithole country. Thanks Trump! You're making America a shit place to live. Solly Mack Feb 2025 #13
Not fascism orangecrush Feb 2025 #14
Reminds me of Lysenko's Lamarckian agenda in the Soviet era. Tanuki Feb 2025 #15
He is one of Putin's favorite influences. yardwork Feb 2025 #24
So. MAGAs, there goes freedom of speech and half of freedom of the press. sinkingfeeling Feb 2025 #16
We have complete freedom to support everything Donald Trump does. tanyev Feb 2025 #27
Hurtling toward a "Degenerate Art" exhibit at the National Gallery Prairie Gates Feb 2025 #17
Women are second class citizens now Johonny Feb 2025 #21
Double plus ungood :( FuzzyDicePHL Feb 2025 #22
The next step will be AverageJoe Feb 2025 #23
I despise that fucking bastard. Passages Feb 2025 #25
Didn't Trump EO that are ARE two genders? Are medical analysts not supposed to know details? underpants Feb 2025 #26
And people didn't believe Project 2025 was real! 3825-87867 Feb 2025 #28
About that First Amendment... 3825-87867 Feb 2025 #29
Balls & strikes fucknut wolfie001 Feb 2025 #37
We're watching a fast movibg coup. Who knew Joinfortmill Feb 2025 #31
Like taking candy from a baby. Easy peasy. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #33
This is how research is conducted in Russia and China. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #32
+1 dalton99a Feb 2025 #36
"Forbidden Items" wolfie001 Feb 2025 #34
Kick dalton99a Feb 2025 #35
Fire up the memory hole! nt Xipe Totec Feb 2025 #38
1A issues? Prairie_Seagull Feb 2025 #39
This is some IV reich bullshit. Prairie_Seagull Feb 2025 #40
We are proving to the world that we have the worst government system. travelingthrulife Feb 2025 #41
Those hole in the heads fear words! GreenWave Feb 2025 #42

Botany

(77,336 posts)
3. A list of forbidden terms? What part of a fascism is missing from this?
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:13 AM
Feb 2025

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)
6. The part that's missing is where Winston Smith is working overtime at the Ministry of Truth.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:32 AM
Feb 2025

kerouac2

(1,496 posts)
5. Pregnant people?
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:26 AM
Feb 2025

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)

kerouac2

(1,496 posts)
12. Thank you!
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:56 AM
Feb 2025

So they were using inclusive language, in their attack to ban dei... Kinda odd of them.

Prairie Gates

(8,174 posts)
19. No, they are banning that term in their efforts against inclusivity
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 09:37 AM
Feb 2025

Scientists have to remove all the listed terminology from any paper they have in the pipeline.

kerouac2

(1,496 posts)
43. Omg yes I see that after another read
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 11:29 AM
Feb 2025

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)
7. Have any articles of impeachment been filed yet? Any for any members of the SCOTUS? WTF is going on?
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 08:37 AM
Feb 2025

This is the most and bitterest collective insanity since Jim Jones and Jonestown.

Tanuki

(16,448 posts)
15. Reminds me of Lysenko's Lamarckian agenda in the Soviet era.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 09:33 AM
Feb 2025
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

..."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)

sinkingfeeling

(57,837 posts)
16. So. MAGAs, there goes freedom of speech and half of freedom of the press.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 09:34 AM
Feb 2025

Tell me again how no place else on earth has American freedoms.

Johonny

(26,199 posts)
21. Women are second class citizens now
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 09:43 AM
Feb 2025

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!

underpants

(196,526 posts)
26. Didn't Trump EO that are ARE two genders? Are medical analysts not supposed to know details?
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
Feb 2025

This is crazy

3825-87867

(1,941 posts)
29. About that First Amendment...
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 10:10 AM
Feb 2025

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!

Irish_Dem

(81,326 posts)
32. This is how research is conducted in Russia and China.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 10:28 AM
Feb 2025

It must all conform to the political standards set forth by the government.
Science, truth, data are not important.

wolfie001

(7,686 posts)
34. "Forbidden Items"
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 10:31 AM
Feb 2025

Sounds like an edict from any random emperor from 1000 years ago. What a brainless fool.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,694 posts)
40. This is some IV reich bullshit.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 11:02 AM
Feb 2025

Apologies to any this upsets.

Needs to be called our for what it seems likely to become.

IMO

travelingthrulife

(5,197 posts)
41. We are proving to the world that we have the worst government system.
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 11:06 AM
Feb 2025

we have a madman in charge and we can do NOTHING to stop him save extrajudicial action.

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