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NIH Censorship (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[-] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

There are well documented processes and methods for removing biases from research, it's basically 3/4 of the work.

[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I have faith it can be controlled within the project itself, I think politics has greater influence in the selection of what gets studied in the first place.

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