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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)

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Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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

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Since when does the CDC have the authority to do this in the first place? If the CDC can't effectively police actions during a global pandemic they sure as shit shouldn't have to authority to control the terminology used in medical research.
- Maybe research that used CDC funds?
  
  Scientists are going to have to start living more modest lifestyles if they want to appreciate science more than wealth.

Crazy how polticized science is.

The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.
- The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people
  Impressive that it is actually true, I thought it is an exaggeration. From Wikipedia:
  On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, came to power
  On 6 May 1933, a group of students ... the students proceeded to shout "Brenne Hirschfeld!" ("Burn Hirschfeld!") while ransacking and vandalizing the Institute, tearing pictures from the walls, pouring inkwells onto carpets, and destroying exhibitions while the band played outside.
  src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany
  
  Yeah, when they teach about book burnings they never mention that fact. It also serves as a reminder that trans people are not just a modern phenomenon. The Nazis' reasons for targeting trans people then are the same as right-wingers today, they look for a small, marginalized group and seize on existing prejudice to sow division and divide and conquer. The Nazis claimed trans people were a Jewish plot to weaken and destroy the Ayran race, and you can still see echos of that in some right-wing rhetoric today.
- They then executed everyone with a brain. Drs, teachers, engineers, scientists, researchers, etc

I'm so fucking scared. They've inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they've defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they've codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they've attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.
and now they're trying to book-burn us out of existence.
this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.
There's just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.
If people don't start standing up for us, we're fucked.
- Wait, how did they mess with passports?
  
  There was a story about how they wouldn't renew some transgender persons passport the other day.
  
  They are stealing the documents of trans people who go to get new documents including passports, leaving them without identifying paperwork (and identified by the authorities by the paperwork they lost) in a time where that is very convenient for the people in power, and threatening them with arrest if they ask for them back. In addition to what has been said already
  
  They’re refusing to issue passports to people who have had their gender marker legally changed, and some bigoted employees have been illegally confiscating documents (like birth certificates and social security cards) from those who try anyways.
  So if your drivers license gender marker doesn’t match your birth certificate, they’ll refuse to issue the passport, and there’s a non-zero chance that the person behind the desk will steal both when you try to apply. So now you don’t have a passport and you need to go through the arduous process of getting all new ID paperwork just to prove who you are.
  
  From my sister about my 17y.o. trans niece: "Unfortunately, [niece] had a children's passport (expired now), so she's in the group who would not be able to get a passport anymore because her birth certificate and social security don't currently match each other and don't match her passport records."
  
  non-binary people had been getting “X“ instead of M or F on their passport. The Trump administration will no longer allow those passports to be issued
  
  The entire passport office is shut down right now .
  They are not issuing new passports.
- I'm so sorry. I can't imagine where your head is at right now.
- All people need is a focus for resistance, a group or a leader to join. Most people are disgusted by this, and despite the election result I still believe most people would rather see trans people happy than suffering. And as the visibility of trans people increases, more and more cis people have been discovering that they know and care about trans people in their own lives. That's why the hateful fringe feels it's so urgent to shut trans rights down. They know they have to push people back into fear and silence before transphobia becomes uncommon. And they know they have to silence people talking about these matters to make organized resistance possible. But the quiet is largely people not knowing how to connect and resist, not a lack of desire to resist. It's time for organized resistance and the first movement that gets going will find many supporters.
  We also need some organization around getting LGBTQ+ refugees out of the USA and into other countries. The restrictions on passports are very ominous.

Look at all this cancel culture….

An attack on science is an attack on us all. They are trying to erase science they dont agree with. This is Christian fascism - welcome to giliad.
Anyone in the US please organise - join an anti religious influence group, protest, disobey. You must fight back.
- Science doesn't need politics, politics needs science.
  
  science needs politics to not be repressed, politics needs science for being effective and fair.
  
  No it surely doesn't. Politics can exist with no new science.
- thats not about religion at its roots.
  join an anti-capitalist organization if you wanna go by history. just delusions of revolution otherwise.
- Also, for those leaking info, please do better than the OOP of the screen shot contained in this post. Not saying this is particularly sensitive and I don’t even know if their intent was to remain anonymous. But just a reminder to think about the little things like the “You forwarded this message at 11:17” because if anyone cares, they could easily find out who forwarded that email at that time. I would guess that most government entities could pretty easily come up with justification to fire anyone based on the public dissemination of intergovernmental emails, regardless of whether the contents were specifically noted as sensitive.
  I only felt compelled to comment this because this is the second post I have seen in the last day or so with an identifying feature like that. There are a lot of government employees who probably can’t stomach working under this administration, and I get it. But there is an argument to make that those of you who oppose the administrations stances can do more good from within, or at least do your best to minimize the harm that would be caused by the bootlicking henchmen you will be replaced with.

“forbidden terms”
...must be that "free speech" I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?
Right?
- to be fair you've been hearing about it from this troglodyte:
  
  I don’t see the difference between the two pictures. Is the left one supposed to be black and white? And the right being in colour?

> On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, [transgender people, and women,] was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned. The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10 May, the entire contents of the library were removed to Berlin’s Bebelplatz Square. That night, along with 20,000 other books across Germany, they were publicly burned in a symbolic attack by Nazi officials on their enemies.

Literally speedrunning the Nazi handbook.

Well now how will I explain that a pregnant dominant species member is not a Martian

What the actual fuck.
- Modern day book burning?
  
  Science burning.
  
  No I’ve been assured this is free speech.

So much money wasted modifying all these documents.
- For them, it's worth the cost for greater good.
  
  For them, it’s worth the cost for greater ~~good~~ harm.
  They don't care about the greater good. They care about causing as much harm as they can.

1984
- More like 1930s Germany.
  
  In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
  
  But with new technology available, so the sci-fi distopia analogy makes sense.

Oh, it's not the onion.
- What's the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too
  
  Drinking the swamp
  
  Crying.
  
  Hopeful thinking

Back up everything. Don't let it be memory-holed! Holy crap.
- This needs more upvotes. Granted, the time to back up everything was when project 2025 hit the internet last year.
- If you have the space for it, please consider helping re-host the Anna’s Archive backup.
  
  Is linking to Anna's Archive allowed here? Guess I'll find out.
  https://annas-archive.org/torrents
  If I had the space and a VPN, I would help maintain it. The least I can do is point others towards the path

This is... This is bad! Wow.

Don't they know just because you've banned a word, doesn't mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?
This is that easy. There's a few words I'd love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
- This is a 21st century version of book burning.
  
  This is Project 2025 in action.
- It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.
- Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
- It's just the first step. You don't acknowledge they exist on paper or in speech. That makes it much easier to turn against them physically. It's still up in the air whether or not they take the final steps of making their existence illegal. I think they will.
- Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.
- What about Turd Ferguson?

Oh look...
The US is embedding a totalitarian theonomic government. A new, (soon to be) militarized, hierarchy regime of religious fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which DEI is being brutally subjugated.
I swear I've seen this show before...

And just like that sci-hub will be even more useful
- There is also annas-archive.

What the actual fuck?! It's like living in a fever-driven nightmare. We can only hope there are backups of the un-purged documents.

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
The scope is thankfully limited only to CDC scientists.
Not that this makes it good news by any stretch.
This is going to push research money squarely under the thumb of corporate control, which is of course the aim here. Privatize everything.
I do know scientists hate having their work paywalled or censored so I’d expect sci-hub to get a lot more popular real quick, but many will definitely self censor their official publications to keep their jobs til orange hitler shoots himself in a bunker somewhere.
- I don’t even know about corporate control here but we’re only going to get “research” that “aligns with policy”, rather than quantifying facts

This is pretty dumb even by trump standards. You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
Most of the research caught up is probably going to be using the terms incidentally (for instance, a drug study that happens to mention participants were AMAB) and this will cause a bunch of paperwork and probably just end up being changed to something like "gametically" or "chromosomally".
- Think even more general than that. Ignore identity/gender/sexuality issues for a moment. How do you write a research article about the negative effects of a drug on pregnancy without using the word pregnant? About complications during a "normal pregnancy"(I'm using their word, not mine - please don't take offense - I hope you see where I'm going)? If you can't mention gender or pregnancy, even when it's about cis people, you suddenly can't do a whole hell of a lot of research.
  
  Oh you can say pregnant woman. Just not pregnant person.
- You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
  The right thinks that if they clamp down hard enough that it will just go away, much like LGBTQ people were forced to mask and hide themselves like they had to back in the day, otherwise they ended up like Matthew Shepard. I don't know that they even consider the euphemism treadmill aspect of things, they just don't want these people to feel like they can be themselves and feel safe.

Following the manual to the letter

This must be all that government waste I've been hearing about...

I hope no one resubmits anything.
- They would be rejected
  
  Publish it somewhere else. Don't let the fascists control data and reality.

I think the endgame is to tear down anything tax dollars have touched. Which, you know, is plausible since his entire platform could be simply summed up as a giant middle finger.
Expect them to attempt to torch more than our science databases

Truth always is the first victim.

How long until this evil administration forces some citizens to sew a yellow star or pink triangle on their clothes?
- Yellow star is so last world war.
  It’ll definitely be pink triangles and moon and star this go around

The GOP read the Bolshevik, CCP and Nazi playbooks.

Are you fucking kidding me?!?! What the fuck is wrong with that orange fucking clown? Jesus fuckjng christ.

Why not move all journals out of the US or move all research out of US journals. Who cares if for instance JAMA publishes nothing this year? Nearly 100% of the value was always in the scientists who write and review the work
- it’s not US journals which are affected, it’s the scientists working for the CDC
  
  For now…

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In Oldspeak, this might be rendered:
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)

I really hope some people are archiving stuff as fast as possible...

Is there an equivalent to samizdat in scientific journals?
If so, our scientists should adopt some pseudonyms...

I disagree with this, but I also disagree censoring research against feminist or LGBT groups, as it has been happening systematically.
- What kind of research do you have in mind? The phrase "research against" strikes me as a bit odd: it suggests research done with a preconceived conclusion in mind, whereas good scientific research tries to investigate a question neutrally and only conclude based on the evidence.
- Examples?

Source?
- On review I agree, we need better sources before we can be confident of this story.
  Edit: It seems to be real.
  https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cdc
  
  Thank you. I'm surprised, this is the science community and I'm downvoted for asking for a source. I thought this community valued proof.

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