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Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

a photograph of a computer screen showing an excerpt of an email. The CC field is visible but mostly redacted, the visible part shows that the two CC'd recipients both include a suffix "CDC/OD/OPH" plus additional not-visible letters after their names. A note above the email says "You forwarded this on 1/31/2025 11:12 A". The visible part of the email body is a bulleted list of the terms Gender, Transgender, Pregnant person, Pregnant people, LGBT, Transsexual, Non-binary, Nonbinary, Assigned male at birth, Assigned female at birth, Biologically male, and Biologically female. At the bottom it says "Connected to: Microsoft exchange"

Reuters: CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says:

The withdrawal order, first reported by the Inside Medicine Substack, goes beyond an initial directive on Jan. 21 that federal health agencies pause their own public communications to allow for a review of those materials by Trump appointees.

Inside Medicine published a list of specific words targeted for removal in the communications review, including gender, transgender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and nonbinary. The federal official said that such a list went out from CDC to its divisions.

The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. If CDC scientists are co-authors on a paper that originated outside of the agency, they are asked to take their names off the paper, the official said.

  • @BranBucket
    3•13 hours ago

    I’m sure they’d eventually expand the list, but what’s shown on the screen could be thwarted with a thesaurus inside of thirty seconds. Which once again just goes to show how fucking shortsighted and dumb these bastards really are. They can’t handle written communication at a third-grade level.