I happened to see this post, and thought it could be healthy and uplifting to have a thread for sharing examples of researchers’ courage and integrity in this trying time.
The article itself is https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/114297
Great idea! A thread to counteract all the murderous B.S. that will soon spew forth from this new “journal,” which would be more aptly named “Profiles in Sociopathy.”
OMG, why is @Sander_Greenland listed on their Editorial Board? https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/about-us/editorial-board/
It’s been pretty quiet on this thread, but here’s a new example:
Interesting piece in The Guardian, suggesting we may soon need to see some courage from statisticians at U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis:
The “Bethesda Declaration” 
A short piece on this by Gregg Gonsalves of Yale:
It’s time for all concerned scientists and advocates for patients to speak up – to, at a minimum, write to your representatives - ideally copying remarks to newspapers as op ed pieces. I could not be more alarmed and saddened by recent appointments and the reckless policy decisions of RFK Jr - Trump’s appointment.
One of the points I’ve made in such endeavors: And for Vinay Prasad, who claims to appreciate Big Data, life expectancy before vaccines was just 47 years; Native Americans died in droves relying on natural immunity to fight off new diseases that arrived with settlers.
Marilynne Robinson’s latest in The New York Review of Books suggests this all amounts to an occupation that aims to “discredit and weaken those features of the culture in which its people placed confidence and pride.”
Ashish Jha suggests in this editorial that we’ll find salvation in civil-society institutions. Separating the function of credibly advising the public on scientific matters from the government’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence seems to me a healthy development for the long term.
I can not help but think the analogy of a red army (pun intended) laying siege to a blue fortress leaves a couple of key questions unanswered:
Why did the red army turn its canons inwards? Surely it too is a benefactor of the many fruits of the institutions it is now bombarding.
Why, despite the open blue-red border noted in the last paragraph, have not more people flocked to the blue side to protect their cherished institutions? Why has the blue side been so impotent in garnering up support for institutions which, on the whole, do much good to blues and reds alike?
Relating that to the third article, to what extent can civil-society organizations be considered safe from this occupation? If ACIP was long considered immune to the crossfire but has now become entangled in it, why does that risk not extend to non-federal civil-society organizations?
Here is a civil-society org (in data science, no less!) ditching a $1.5M NSF grant over the anti-DEI clause.