BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
insidemedicine.substack.com
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
  • Stormdancer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Publish it somewhere else. Don’t let the fascists control data and reality.

        • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 months ago

          If only publishing wasn’t such a painful process. Maybe other journals can fastrack retracted cdc papers

          • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Theoretically, this could be the impetus that Sparks Open journals, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem very likely.

  • lembas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

      • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        From my sister about my 17y.o. trans niece: “Unfortunately, [niece] had a children’s passport (expired now), so she’s in the group who would not be able to get a passport anymore because her birth certificate and social security don’t currently match each other and don’t match her passport records.”

      • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        8 months ago

        non-binary people had been getting “X“ instead of M or F on their passport. The Trump administration will no longer allow those passports to be issued

        • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Seems to be more than that, one person was outright refused any passport, even male, and were threatened with arrest if they asked any more questions. All paperwork (birth certificate etc) was kept by the office in LA.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        They’re refusing to issue passports to people who have had their gender marker legally changed, and some bigoted employees have been illegally confiscating documents (like birth certificates and social security cards) from those who try anyways.

        So if your drivers license gender marker doesn’t match your birth certificate, they’ll refuse to issue the passport, and there’s a non-zero chance that the person behind the desk will steal both when you try to apply. So now you don’t have a passport and you need to go through the arduous process of getting all new ID paperwork just to prove who you are.

      • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        They are stealing the documents of trans people who go to get new documents including passports, leaving them without identifying paperwork (and identified by the authorities by the paperwork they lost) in a time where that is very convenient for the people in power, and threatening them with arrest if they ask for them back. In addition to what has been said already

        • fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          8 months ago

          They confiscated it, wouldn’t give it back and were threatening to arrest her. There are also reports of trans people that were renewing their passports by mail and told they wouldn’t be getting them back.

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Ugh.

            You just know if it was someone sadly following the new requirements, it would have been a very apologetic taking of it and that would be the end, even if traumatic.

            When they threaten to arrest them, they’re in on it.

          • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Maybe it’s just the three trans people I know that are trying to leave the country right now, my brother’s family, and a bunch of family friends that come from a family of pilots and flight attendants.

            I’m sure they are the only people having trouble in the whole country. Must be an isolated incident. … …

            They are all located out west and in the Midwest, so maybe it’s just the Chicago office and the website. I don’t know if anybody has tried doing it through mail correspondence yet but that takes a little bit more time anyway.

            • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 months ago

              That’s completely different than, “The entire passport office is shut right now.”. You were either being unnecessarily hyperbolic, or intentionally spreading misinformation. Neither helps in situations like this.

          • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            There have been multiple people in local groups that have reported this happening to them this week. Going to get documentation updated, sent home without anything - not even documentation with natal sex. Local queer org put out an advisory - reached out to all shrinks that work with queer people.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      All people need is a focus for resistance, a group or a leader to join. Most people are disgusted by this, and despite the election result I still believe most people would rather see trans people happy than suffering. And as the visibility of trans people increases, more and more cis people have been discovering that they know and care about trans people in their own lives. That’s why the hateful fringe feels it’s so urgent to shut trans rights down. They know they have to push people back into fear and silence before transphobia becomes uncommon. And they know they have to silence people talking about these matters to make organized resistance possible. But the quiet is largely people not knowing how to connect and resist, not a lack of desire to resist. It’s time for organized resistance and the first movement that gets going will find many supporters.

      We also need some organization around getting LGBTQ+ refugees out of the USA and into other countries. The restrictions on passports are very ominous.

  • Shortstack@reddthat.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I think the endgame is to tear down anything tax dollars have touched. Which, you know, is plausible since his entire platform could be simply summed up as a giant middle finger.

    Expect them to attempt to torch more than our science databases

  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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…

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    An attack on science is an attack on us all. They are trying to erase science they dont agree with. This is Christian fascism - welcome to giliad.

    Anyone in the US please organise - join an anti religious influence group, protest, disobey. You must fight back.

      • zeca@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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        8 months ago

        science needs politics to not be repressed, politics needs science for being effective and fair.

        • kernelle@0d.gsEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Science doesn’t need politics to tell what is what, it’s science who should be telling politics what is what. Ofcourse politics can block science, e.g. this article.

    • AugustWest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Also, for those leaking info, please do better than the OOP of the screen shot contained in this post. Not saying this is particularly sensitive and I don’t even know if their intent was to remain anonymous. But just a reminder to think about the little things like the “You forwarded this message at 11:17” because if anyone cares, they could easily find out who forwarded that email at that time. I would guess that most government entities could pretty easily come up with justification to fire anyone based on the public dissemination of intergovernmental emails, regardless of whether the contents were specifically noted as sensitive.

      I only felt compelled to comment this because this is the second post I have seen in the last day or so with an identifying feature like that. There are a lot of government employees who probably can’t stomach working under this administration, and I get it. But there is an argument to make that those of you who oppose the administrations stances can do more good from within, or at least do your best to minimize the harm that would be caused by the bootlicking henchmen you will be replaced with.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Is there an equivalent to samizdat in scientific journals?

    If so, our scientists should adopt some pseudonyms…

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Why not move all journals out of the US or move all research out of US journals. Who cares if for instance JAMA publishes nothing this year? Nearly 100% of the value was always in the scientists who write and review the work

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      What kind of research do you have in mind? The phrase “research against” strikes me as a bit odd: it suggests research done with a preconceived conclusion in mind, whereas good scientific research tries to investigate a question neutrally and only conclude based on the evidence.