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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)

submitted 3 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/science@lemmy.world

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[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago

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

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

This is a 21st century version of book burning.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

This is Project 2025 in action.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago

It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.

[-] prole 29 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

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.