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Banning words in scientific research? I mean this is getting beyond even the stuff they pretend China is doing.
Oh neat we’re at the “destroying transgender research, setting back the world at least a century” stage
That’s not good
I don’t think knowledge can be destroyed in this day and age.
Research institutions are more international and globalised than they were in the 20th century.
Even if american fascists started burning Research documents and books, the knowledge would most likely not be lost if it’s already shared on an international level.
As usual, american politics is completely detached from material reality and can only deal in aesthetics and theater.
I can absolutely get behind banning “biologically male/female” but damn is this just dystopian as fuck.
This is just slop for the hogs. The economy is about to get tanked and this is an attempt to keep the chuds somewhat appeased.
They fucking banned the word gender?!
No more “Joe many liberals” jokes in my scientific research wtf this sucks
this is probably as close to we’re going to get to a literal recreation of the burning of the berlin clinic
since it’s 2025 and not 1925.I hope you’re right, but I fear you aren’t. I think this will get worse.
oh yeah for sure, all i’m saying is that it’s probably going to involve digitally accessible information and not attacks on centralized institutional keepers of this knowledge. mostly because that’s just not how that’s materially realized anymore. so if anyone is thinking to themselves “well i’m going to have to take this action when they burn the gender clinic,” it’s probably time to feel that kind of way.
Luv 2 b considered ‘not a person’
Every bureaucrat responsible should be included in a Nuremberg Trial.
They’re banning the word gender?! That’s an absolute fuckton of articles, most of which have nothing to do with trans people
Lysenkoism 2.0 let’s go!
To be fair the US has always been Lysenkoism 0.0, doing evolution denial before it was cool
While it feels like the last few years have been a car careening towards a cliff, it’s beginning to seem like we are now mid-air
- gender
Oh we’re doing gender abolition?
I’ve heard apolitical people irl discussing politics
Extremely sus to say the least. I might even say we are cooked and whatever plan you have to leave this country will only delay the inevitable
absolutely subhuman country
Good thing this country is dying. Death to America
This is incredibly stupid, thankfully we have the arxive
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me when I have absolutely no understanding of what an archive as a concept is
the arxiv is good. treating every preprint you find, even one that is a preprint for an eventually published paper, as having the same rigor as peer-reviewed empirical studies is silly. mostly because there do end up being important and critical errors in arxiv submissions that for various reasons are not ever corrected except for the final journal version. arxiv papers should be relied on for something critically important without verifying. when you can, it’s good to steal and horde the best, finalized version like sci-hub.
Arxiv is for preprints, maybe they should be retracted or not but generally whats up there is from before they’re reviewed. My paper is on there before we got published - that’s right, I’m an author of a math paper~
Probably they should still archive papers for sure aside from one place. That’s part of how we protect this valuable data
It would be good to have the pre-prints on arXiv labelled retracted if they actually are (I don’t know for sure if they do or not), but it is for pre-prints and something anyone can upload to even if it hasn’t been accepted by a journal yet. So it can be used responsibly as long as the person looking at the papers knows that there is no quality control, and people can upload anything. Since, usually only academics really go there much, and its original purpose was a loophole to get around paywalling of journals. And that same loophole can get uncensored versions of these articles out there for people to read.
So, while it does have this opening for abuse, since mostly academics use it I wouldn’t say that it is bad at the moment. So far it hasn’t been a significant channel for much misinformation since most misinformation is through Youtube, Facebook, etc. posts rather than people citing bad pre-prints. And I am even saying this as a physicist which, maybe it is just the filter of my own experience, but I think is the field of science that has the most cranks publishing their own theories to arXiv, such as “the new theory of super-gravity that shows dark matter isn’t real” or “why quantum mechanics proves conscious beings have souls”.
