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'Chaos and Fear' at CDC Amid Order to Retract Journal Articles to Purge 'Forbidden Terms' (www.commondreams.org)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I just can't wrap my head around why the words gender or pregnant are so dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Surely this is ripe for some malicious compliance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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