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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:47 JST Nonilex

   #CDC scientists were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “#transgender,” “#immigrant,” “#LGBT” or “#pregnant people.”

   Sam Posner, the CDC’s assoc dir for #science, instructed employees to withdraw research papers “that promote or inculcate #gender ideology or that have been flagged as at risk for such.”

   #research #censorship #Trump #bigotry #USpol
   https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news/trump-gender-research?smid=url-share

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:42 JST mark

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     @cafechatnoir @Nonilex 100% this will be nothing but old news by then

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     @Nonilex

     She should have to respond by COB Monday.

     She doesn't need or deserve a week.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:44 JST Nonilex

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     Also missing are guidelines on #contraception & the diagnosis and prevention of #HIV & sexually transmitted infections, as well as #vaccine info sheets that doctors typically give to patients receiving the shots.

     On Sat night, 9 members of a congressionally chartered cmte of #medical experts, the advisory cmte to the #CDC director, wrote a joint letter pressing the agency’s acting dir, Susan Monarez, to explain by Fri why the CDC had stripped its website of the info & to meet w/them asap.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:45 JST Nonilex

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     Some of the pages may return, scrubbed of the terms, but others — for instance, those on #transgender #health — are expected to remain absent.

     “The information about transgender health being stripped from government websites is absolutely unbelievable,” said Dr. Richard Besser, who served as acting dir of the #CDC in 2009.

     “It’s hard to know where to start to talk about just how offensive this is, this attempt by the government to erase people from society,” he said.

     #science #research #Trump

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:46 JST Nonilex

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     Separately, a directive prohibiting #CDC employees from holding scientific meetings or communicating w/other orgs or the public was indefinitely extended.

     The memo from Dr. Posner provided the exact language employees were to use when corresponding: “Consistent with the President’s Executive Order titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism & Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, I am removing myself as a coauthor from this submission.”

     #science #censorship #Trump

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:46 JST Nonilex

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     If all the authors on a paper were #CDC scientists, they were instructed to retract the article from consideration by the journal.

     Larry Gostin, director of the WHO Center on Global #Health #Law, said that the directive amounted to #censorship, not just of government employees but of private citizens. He noted that withdrawal of the lead author would effectively kill publication of a paper even it had co-authors who were private scientists.

     #research #science #Trump #bigotry #USpol

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 02:55:46 JST Nonilex

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     “It’s important to stress that scientific expression is at the core of #FirstAmendment freedoms, as vital to the #Constitution as artistic & political speech,” Gostin said. “The White House directive is positively Orwellian.”

     On Wed, #CDC employees were directed to edit out any mention of the forbidden terms, resulting in the disappearance of thousands of pages on the agency’s website.

     #science #research #censorship #Trump #bigotry #USpol