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.
How does boot taste?
...what?
Scientists aren't wealthy to begin with. The only people pushing that idea is the anti intellectual conspiracy theorists you're listening too.
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.
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.
Look at all this cancel culture….
“forbidden terms”
...must be that "free speech" I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?
Right?
Well now how will I explain that a pregnant dominant species member is not a Martian
Literally speedrunning the Nazi handbook.
1984
More like 1930s Germany.
In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
Oh, it's not the onion.
What's the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too
Drinking the swamp
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.
Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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