Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function

vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• zlatiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah no joke. The biomedical community is probably in collective ourage now, since NIH straight up cancelled most grant reviews and all types of outreach… which is unprecedented

  The official NIH website banning specific words is just… cherry on the cake, I suppose. Hence only mildly infuriating

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  I swear goodness this gives me way too much of the great China firewall vibe…

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Welcome to totalitarian regimes.

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They have to. It’s covered in one of the executive orders he made day 1. You can look through all of them on whitehouse.gov if you want.

    DEI is explicitly prohibited in governement orgs now.

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m waiting for the word Orange to be banned by executive order.

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