'Chaos and Fear' at CDC Amid Order to Retract Journal Articles to Purge 'Forbidden Terms' | Common Dreams
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"How can the government decide what words a journal can use to describe a scientific reality? That reality needs to be named," one journal editor said.

“How can the government decide what words a journal can use to describe a scientific reality? That reality needs to be named,” one journal editor said.

  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    4 days ago

    Save you a click

    The “forbidden terms” CDC employees are supposed to avoid are, in full: Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, and biologically female, according to Inside Medicine.

    • jonesy
      6·
      4 days ago

      Surely this is ripe for some malicious compliance.

      • ewo@lemmy.sdf.org
        9·
        4 days ago

        100GB of CDC data is on the Internet Archive, there’s surely a hero around somewhere!