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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday December 12 2015, @03:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the political-correctness-gone-more-rediculous dept.

From ScienceMag.org:

The World Health Organization (WHO) mostly works to reduce the physical toll of disease. But last week it turned to another kind of harm: the insult and stigma inflicted by diseases named for people, places, and animals. Among the existing monikers that its new guidelines "for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases" would discourage: Ebola, swine flu, Rift Valley Fever, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and monkey pox. Instead, WHO says researchers, health officials, and journalists should use more neutral, generic terms, such as severe respiratory disease or novel neurologic syndrome.

Many scientists agree that disease names can be problematic, but they aren't sure the new rulebook is necessarily an improvement. "It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion," predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong. "You should not take political correctness so far that in the end no one is able to distinguish these diseases," says Christian Drosten, a virologist at the University of Bonn, Germany.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @05:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @05:41PM (#275455)

    I'm sick and tired of this politically correct bullshit. It's turning people into mindless, nutless, limp wristed, telletubbied pansies. Grow some balls and say what it is. This is why I'm voting for Trump. He's not afraid of hurting someones feelings like the rest of the pansy limpwrists in DC.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @10:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @10:28PM (#275591)

    Trump just told Iowa farmers he's 100 percent in favor of ethanol subsidies, unlike Ted Cruz. That's going to help taxpayers across the country, right?

    Nope, sorry, only those in Iowa, who hold the first event in primary season. Everyone else pays higher taxes.

    When Trump panders: that's because he's a "smart businessman" who is a "master of the art of the deal".

    When anyone else panders: see, that's exactly the kind of clubby behavior in Washington we need to get rid of!!!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @04:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @04:09PM (#275789)

    >It's turning people into mindless, nutless, limp wristed, telletubbied pansies.

    I expect nothing else from the ones in charge. Everything the ones in charge do is trying to secure their position in direct and indirect ways.