CDC staff forced to remove woke pseudoscience
The Trump administration has banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using certain woke terms, forcing staff to withdraw pseudoscientific content.
CDC Associate Director for Science Dr. Sam Posner instructed employees on Friday to scrap any terms “that promote or inculcate gender ideology or that have been flagged as at risk for such.” Such phrases include “LGBT,” “pregnant people,” “transgender,” and “immigrant.” Staff are not only forbidden to use such terms in an official capacity going forward, but days earlier they were ordered to erase any mention of these words.
The result was that thousands of pages of content were removed from the CDC’s website, though the New York Times reported that some content came back online on Monday. Pages containing the newly banned terms display a warning: “CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.”
The rule applies to website content and the 1,700 scientists employed by the CDC. Any agency scientist who has authored a paper containing any of the forbidden terms must retract it, and if they co-authored a paper with a third party, they must withdraw their name.
No climate change or pronouns
Other federal agencies have also been forced to withdraw pseudoscience. ABC News reported that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) was instructed to remove content related to climate change from all public websites.
All federal employees are forbidden to include their “pronouns” in their email signatures.
Bureaucrat refuses to comply
Nate Brought, director of the executive secretariat at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wrote a letter to acting NIH Director Matthew Memoli and other senior officials urging them to defy the orders.
“By complying with these orders, we will be denigrating the contributions made to the NIH mission by trans and intersex members of our staff, and the contributions of trans and intersex citizens to our society,” he said.
“These policies will lead to mental health crises or worse for tens of thousands of Americans who contribute productively to our communities.”
