A new analysis of the digital database that houses millions of academic articles in the biomedical and life sciences fields reveals a love affair with “woke terminology” from about 2020 through 2025 that dumbs down science and harms policy and practice, according to a researcher.
The analysis covers the use of words such as indigenous knowledge, microaggression, justice, safe space, and health equity in medical journals.
Published recently by James Nuzzo, an exercise scientist and men’s health researcher, it documents “woke medical terminology” found on the PubMed database.
For example, the phrase “lived experience” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 10,631 articles indexed in PubMed, and “transgender” appeared in the titles or abstracts of 15,741 articles.