The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.” - ThreadSky

seanmcarroll.bsky.social • 75 days ago

The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

Reposted from Jeremy Faust, MD

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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mimeoman.bsky.social•71 days ago

This is getting positively Orwellian! Seeing 2025 turn into 1984 was not on my bingo card. I hope everyone will conscientiously refuse to comply with such a totalitarian demand.

zoroastrian.bsky.social•75 days ago

Seems there is only one sensible solution for US scientists right now. RoW needs to offer bonuses to all US scientists to emigrate & continue research in the EU, UK, Japan, S Korea, where ever. Make world science great again. Make world organisations work for humanity again not for the Broligarchy!

wojno.bsky.social•75 days ago

New book burning

jspieve.bsky.social•75 days ago

TBH I’m surprised that “evolution” isn’t on the list

gdd9000.bsky.social•75 days ago

They are, and always were, absolutely full of shit.

sylvie2u.bsky.social•75 days ago

25th the 47th, NOW!

mockgod.bsky.social•74 days ago

Dude, just call it Newspeak

darnhyena.itch.io•75 days ago

Hardly a surprise.

Literally one of the first things trump did back in 2016 was suppressing speech for no no words that upset him like anything that talked about.. 'shudders' the environment...

bugbear6502.bsky.social•75 days ago

Real life Newspeak. Orwell got the date wrong, but otherwise prophetic.

oromazes.bsky.social•75 days ago

Once you have gone unpunished for an attempted coup that you flaunted in the face of the public what is stopping you from breaking any norm or regulation? Many will regret their vote, but I am quite sure they will do so in silence.

sarahhengel.bsky.social•75 days ago

Sean can you dm me? I have questions about organizing and such.

avimitrani.bsky.social•75 days ago

"Many worlds"?

boomer1951.bsky.social•75 days ago

More lawsuits will be filed declaring this nonsense unconstitutional on free speech grounds.

budvaropa.bsky.social•75 days ago

In the new regime, knowledge and experience are BAD. Blind, ignorant loyalty to the orange god is more important

b0bsmith.bsky.social•75 days ago

Give a copy to them, and then give the real document to the internet.

mmylova.bsky.social•75 days ago

WTAF 😖 I have no words…

sdorsher.bsky.social•75 days ago

Omg they’re actually going to retract all publications on gender? Or that have used it? That can’t be possible can it?

sdorsher.bsky.social•75 days ago

Or on pregnant people? Omg this is so dangerous

sdorsher.bsky.social•75 days ago

It’s not as bad as I thought. They’re not retracting papers that have been published. But omg. This means that they can’t publish new information about how healthcare effects people with inborn or medically generated physical differences

tootingmyownhorn.bsky.social•75 days ago

2 days ago I submitted a post on my LinkedIn that revovled around Richard Feynman's paper from 1955, titled "The Value of Science", and his framing of the "Satisfactory Philosophy of Ignorance". I quoted him a couple of times in my post. Within 10 min from my post, my LinkedIn account got blocked.

tootingmyownhorn.bsky.social•75 days ago

Just like Bluesky (becoming an alternative to X), we need new alternatives to all the other social media platforms, specially those controlled by the hyperscalers, otherwise all voices of reason will be shutout, blocked, banned, and censored sooner than we can imagine. Resistance will not be futile.

tootingmyownhorn.bsky.social•75 days ago

I have sent numerous requests to LinkedIn support as to why my account was frozen and what policies I had violated, if any at all. There has been total silence and I am feeling very lost, disrespected, manipulated, and unwelcome. I never thought anyone would face this level of censorship in US.

arborscientiae.bsky.social•75 days ago

This is ridiculous! I'm sure we can keep coming up with different phrasings for the same thing for a while though, "pregnant individuals", "those with pregnancies", "humans that are pregnant"...

But we shouldn't have to play games of cat and mouse just to state the facts inoffensively.

payne588.bsky.social•75 days ago

How do they enforce this?

navigatorbr.bsky.social•75 days ago

It'd be great if science publications could just *drag their fucking feet* on this.

qgennas.bsky.social•75 days ago

Maybe government waste with military planes less than half full of undocumented people, paper publications reissued with freedom fries, and ignoring actual research is a Democratic value Republicans no longer believe in.

When voters choose 34 count governance anything is possible.

toby-a-martin.bsky.social•75 days ago

How do these people continue to be more cartoonishly villainous than actual cartoons?

alex.kondratskiy.ca•75 days ago

What happens if everyone collectively agrees to ignore this gag order? They can't just fire everyone at the CDC, can they? I feel like standing united in the face of this kind of oppression is the only way forward, otherwise all freedoms will be chipped away in time.

wjgrif.bsky.social•74 days ago

Wow. Just wow.

twitskeptic.sirvin.com•75 days ago

And, even worse, censoring scientific meetings and communications. https://bsky.app/profile/apoorvanyt.bsky.social/post/3lh5sglacjc26

axedame.bsky.social•74 days ago

variabel.no•75 days ago

I keep checking my calendar but it still doesnt say 1930-something. Yet here we are

mikeocon.bsky.social•75 days ago

Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger are hard at work I'm sure.

writeon1.bsky.social•75 days ago

Doubleplusungood.

ziggysden.bsky.social•75 days ago

The rest of the world is about to benefit from a glut of top scientists and researchers. Other institutions are available, other journals are available.

ziggysden.bsky.social•75 days ago

Many will of course comply with the order & resubmit. If they do, how can their previous & future research be trusted to be non-biased if they fold this easily to pressure & censorship?

envysnest.bsky.social•75 days ago

book burning.

andyroz.bsky.social•75 days ago

The topic of free speech has gone very quiet hasn't it.

lolalolajoaquin.bsky.social•74 days ago

we are in Hitler time now. believe it.

kakistokrat.bsky.social•49 days ago

Because FREEDOM!

chronosws.bsky.social•74 days ago

I'd love to see the complete original order. Anyone have a link?

dorian-nakamoto.bsky.social•74 days ago

Shame on me I guess for thinking Americans thought censorship == bad

tauriq.bsky.social•75 days ago

Jesus

emperorhouse.bsky.social•75 days ago

This is straight-up thought policing.

daveh.me•75 days ago

Looks like you guys woke up in Putin's Russia.

fredbo.bsky.social•75 days ago

General strike. At some point soon the public needs to effect a general strike.

matesrsen.bsky.social•75 days ago

The champions of saying whatever they need to say to get into power and not particularly caring whether their later actions match their words because now they are in power and by definition don't need to give a shit about people pointing out their hypocrisy - they already got what they wanted.

crybabyjoestar.bsky.social•75 days ago

Such a huge danger to pregnant people and their loved ones. It’s such a fragile time and blocking research and access to health and safety information is going to be very harmful.

flick131.bsky.social•75 days ago

Stephen Miller, the mastermind of all things restrictive and regressive, is behind Trump’s latest executive orders. Who could’ve seen that coming? The man who practically dreams in policy rollbacks is at it again, making sure progress gets a swift kick out the door. Bravo.

freya.bsky.social•75 days ago

the days where I thought these people actually had any of the principles they claim are long gone at this point

I wish they'd just admit what they actually believe and want, but I guess that means they'd have to face honest criticism and we can't have that, it seems

bklynmink.bsky.social•75 days ago

Yep, full Fascist and it's only the first 2 weeks.

quickbear.bsky.social•75 days ago

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