Reaffirming the JAMA Network Commitment to the Health of Patients and the Public

In the first month of the new administration responsible for leading the US, the executive branch has issued a flurry of orders, including ones associated with the dismissal or resignation of tens of thousands of federal employees. Many of these have substantial consequences for science, medicine, and public health. Amidst the dizzying array of actions, it is difficult to know where to focus and how best to respond. However, the silencing of science and health-related communications through suppression or erasure of information, and the corresponding silence by many in the fields of biomedicine and public health, deserve special consideration.