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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 56 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

I went through some of my papers partially supported by US grants and all of them use a bunch of forbidden words. This is basically pure maths, and you are not allowed to use "equality" as in the relationship between one expression and another is an equality? It is so increadibly stupid. Look:

A dangerous sign of wokeness

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Me frantically going through all my Maths papers to replace the equal sign with “Is Equivalent to”

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I presume you used base ten, which is dangerously non-binary.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How long until they force all numbers to be binary

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

but equivalent and equal are different right?

in comp sci “is the same thing as” (equal) and “amounts to the same thing as” (equivalent) are very different concepts

(also when talking “DEI”-type use [god i hate that i hate phrasing it like that]: equality is not wanted: we don’t want the same as in most cases; we want amounts to the same as taking in different circumstances)

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 15 points 21 hours ago

That’s so fucking asinine

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Fascism is completely based on lies. The denial of math should be no surprise. It's a direct continuation of the ideology.

See also the conclusion of "1984". There's a good reason why it was about 2+2=?. Some things never change.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

@idunnololz@lemmy.world the = inside the spoiler doesn't render for me

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