Federal orders put pressure on science journals to drop inclusive language

Federal orders put pressure on science journals to drop inclusive language

A federally funded health journal asked researchers to cut demographic data and the word “equitably” from a peer-reviewed paper — raising alarms about political interference in public health research.Peter Andrey Smith reports for Undark.In short:Anthropologists Tamar Antin and Rachelle Annechino withdrew their accepted study from Public Health Reports after the journal requested edits to remove language allegedly conflicting with Trump-era exec…