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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 57 points 3 days ago (9 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

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

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