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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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[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

cool to read that you lot use "verboten" as a legit word

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

Ironically enough, if they used German words for such, it might just pass the Turd Reich censors. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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