floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoCDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)insidemedicine.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1442arrow-down15cross-posted to: medicine@mander.xyzusnews@beehaw.orgtransgendernews@hexbear.nethackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1437arrow-down1external-linkCDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)insidemedicine.substack.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square53fedilinkcross-posted to: medicine@mander.xyzusnews@beehaw.orgtransgendernews@hexbear.nethackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareMunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·4 hours agoDon’t they know just because you’ve banned a word, doesn’t mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence? This is that easy. There’s a few words I’d love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·48 minutes agoUnfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
minus-squareMothmanDelorian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 hours agoIt makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.
Don’t they know just because you’ve banned a word, doesn’t mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?
This is that easy. There’s a few words I’d love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd
Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
It makes it harder to pursue science when you cannot use the terns others in ypur field use.