Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'?

"For the past few weeks, medical publishers have been grappling with reports of expansive censorship orders at the US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The US Department of Health ordered a freeze on public health communications from federal agencies that now require pre-publication approval by a political appointee. The CDC has scrubbed public webpages and databases on rates of HIV and health disparities among LGBTQ+ communities. Unnamed sources have shared details of a directive to withdraw unpublished papers that will be screened for a list of "forbidden words", like transgender, pregnant person, LGBTQ+ or non-binary. CDC staff must rescind co-authorship if they cannot ensure compliance....

But although many medical journal editors have made their position known, medical publishers are, for now, conspicuously silent....

The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test. This is an opportunity for the industry to affirm its commitment to safeguard the scholarly record from ideological distortion. Censorship in health research affects us all. We share a responsibility to stand firm and decry Trump’s war on "gender ideology" as a full-scale assault on the scientific method."