U.S. government censorship poses significant threats to public health research by influencing the research record, conditioning institutional funding, and restricting what researchers can communicate.

An important new study is available! "From anecdote to evidence: Mapping the impact of US government action on public health research" https://www.growkudos.com/projects/from-anecdote-to-evidence Research Consulting conducted the study, in partnership with #DefendResearch, analyzing 4,200+ coded extracts from almost 250 scholarly and news sources, finding that U.S. government censorship creates threats at the system, institutional, and individual levels. This is strong evidence for stronger advocacy to end #censorship!

"From anecdote to evidence: Mapping the impact of US government action on public health research." https://zenodo.org/records/23495120 "This project by #DefendResearch and #ResearchConsulting assesses US federal #censorship of knowledge in #PublicHealth research. The final report draws on more than 4,200 coded extracts from 244 scholarly and news sources. It examines threats operating across the research system, from tampering with the research record, to conditioning institutional funding, to policing what individual researchers can say. The study also considers how courts, funders, publishers and professional bodies have responded, and concludes with recommendations for strengthening the protection of research from censorship." Also see the summary at Kudos… https://www.growkudos.com/projects/from-anecdote-to-evidence …and the #DefendResearch announcement. https://www.defendresearch.org/news/press-releases/anecdote-to-evidence This is an important report from #RobJohnson et al at Research Consulting. I'm proud to be part of the #DefendResearch team that partnered with them on this project. #Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics