floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 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-square62fedilinkarrow-up1523arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1517arrow-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 · 11 hours agomessage-square62fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareMunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·5 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-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·30 minutes agoThis is a 21st century version of book burning.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 hours agoUnfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.
minus-squareMothmanDelorian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·5 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
This is a 21st century version of book burning.
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.