Nature calls new Executive Order banning certain scientific terms from publication "Mind-boggling"

• ‘Mind-boggling’: US CDC orders gender-related terms cut from scientific papers

  Mandate from health agency is response to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on ‘woke ideology’ and has big implications for researchers.

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See also:

• ‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel [Nature]

  In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

  Confusion and anxiety is rippling through the US health-research community this week following Donald Trump taking office as the 47th US president. His administration has abruptly cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public biomedical funder. Adding to the worry: the Trump team appears to have deleted entire webpages about diversity programmes and diversity-related grants from the agency’s site.

Note that both the Center for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health are affected.

I also predict that science-related clubs and even science classes themselves at West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy will be affected by the same ban that has hit all DEI-related clubs at West Point: West Point disbands 12 cadet organizations in response to DEI directives

and that eventually, they will go after ALL US colleges and universities that receive federal grant money, including Pell grants and other federally funded scholarships and try to prevent ANY club or ANY class that violates the EOs from existing.

This is true Handmaid's Tale stuff.

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edit: changed to non-paywalled version for first paper. I didn't change the title from the non-paywalled version however. There is an interesting editorial change from:

• ‘Mind-boggling’: US CDC orders gender-related terms cut from scientific papers (paywall)

  Mandate from health agency is response to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on ‘woke ideology’ and has big implications for researchers.

to:

• US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers (archived)

  The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows an executive order from president Donald Trump, and applies to research not yet published.

Or perhaps the more sensational title is more recent.

paranoid me archived a screenshot of the more sensationalist current title just in case it gets edited out before that version is archived.

This really does feel like the start of a fascist takeover of the US, complete with self-censorship out of fear of reprisals, doesn't it?