Two Harvard medical school professors, Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging that their research focusing on patient safety was removed from a government website because it mentioned the LGBTQ community. The professors claimed that this removal violated their First Amendment right to free speech and accused the administration of unlawfully suppressing information that could improve patient diagnoses. According to the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and Yale Law School, approximately 795,000 Americans die or are disabled each year due to misdiagnosis, and censoring research in this area could potentially increase that number. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, removed the professors’ peer-reviewed articles because they contained terms like “LGBTQ” and “transgender,” allegedly citing an executive order on gender ideology signed by President Trump. The lawsuit names several government agencies as defendants and argues that censoring medical research is a serious violation of the First Amendment. Schiff and Royce, both respected in their fields, refuse to censor their medical conclusions and have brought the lawsuit to defend the integrity of medical research and the safety of patients. The professors’ work focuses on improving patient safety through better clinical reasoning and diagnosis practices.
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