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There is also one more important harm: reputational and trust harms to science.

Research ethics controversies hurt research overall. They decrease trust in ethics review. And in this case decrease redditors' trusts of researchers, likely influencing willingness to participate in consented research.
April 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
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April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Mods of r/changemyview handling this like a boss
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META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments
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April 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
April 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home.

Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Try that in a small town
ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.
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April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
FDA realness
So, how fucked up is the FDA right now? Let me dish some bitch ass tea! Possible 🧵. Right now, you cannot foIA the FDA. There is no one there to answer. Reply times on these are federally mandated!
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Alt: a woman sits in a chair drinking from a cup
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April 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Putting this up on my wall
And by the way, the more people speak *the harder it is to single one person out*
People think being small will keep them safe.

It won't.

The reason we know who Mahmoud Kahlil is is because he was loud. Do you think he's the only person the administration has tried to disappear? He's just one of the first we've noticed
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This kind of bias makes these no-longer-scientific journals until corrected.

"It appears that journals published by the federal government are subject to direct political interference at this time, compromising the principles of peer review and the integrity of all research published therein."
We were asked to change language and delete data from a paper that already been through peer review successfully - "in order to comply with the Executive Order."

This is from the official journal of the US Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service.

criticalpublichealth.org/blog/2025/03...
Resisting Attacks on Science - Center for Critical Public Health
So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.
criticalpublichealth.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"But, let’s be clear. These are not editorial requests aimed at improving our science or clarifying our main arguments. Instead, they seek to obscure from view entire populations of people, such as sexual minorities, who experience tremendous inequities in health." 👏👏👏
We were asked to change language and delete data from a paper that already been through peer review successfully - "in order to comply with the Executive Order."

This is from the official journal of the US Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service.

criticalpublichealth.org/blog/2025/03...
Resisting Attacks on Science - Center for Critical Public Health
So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.
criticalpublichealth.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The current administration is straight up censoring the scientific record by requiring authors to alter an already-accepted research paper because it uses banned words such as "gender" and "equitable" and presents data broken down by sexual orientation.
We were asked to change language and delete data from a paper that already been through peer review successfully - "in order to comply with the Executive Order."

This is from the official journal of the US Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service.

criticalpublichealth.org/blog/2025/03...
Resisting Attacks on Science - Center for Critical Public Health
So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.
criticalpublichealth.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Last week we officially withdrew a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.

criticalpublichealth.org/blog/2025/03...
Resisting Attacks on Science - Center for Critical Public Health
So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.
criticalpublichealth.org
March 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In "disheartening" conversations with fellow NIH-funded researchers, one said they "shelved a proposal on sexual and gender minority health because 'what was the point?' Another abandoned a manuscript out of fear of retaliation from a government funder."
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Self Censorship in Research - Center for Critical Public Health
I fully recognize why social scientists craft their proposals to align with a funder’s mission – this is the reality of grantsmanship. In a soft-money research environment, success depends not … Self ...
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March 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"I have a few violations to scientific integrity to report. Where do I go for that now?"

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February 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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After the federal grant freeze, "I spent the day speaking with colleagues to be sure they understood that any freeze on our federal grants meant that our agency would be forced to lay off all staff and immediately close."
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Dr. Leonard Syme - Center for Critical Public Health
This week I learned of Dr. Leonard Syme’s passing. I met Dr. Syme over twenty years ago. Though our encounter was brief, that single meeting with him set me on … Dr. Leonard Syme Read More
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January 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM