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posted by martyb on Sunday December 17 2017, @05:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the George-Orwell-Says-Hi! dept.

Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html

You don't say!


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:19AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:19AM (#610878)

    The point isn't whether or not they've been using these words and phrases. The point is that they could use them, and that is now seen as dangerous wrongthink.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:43AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:43AM (#610883)

    This is a very worrying move, but that concern is obvious and shared and doesn't benefit from having an AC draw attention to it.

    The fact it is felt necessary to stop the CDC from saying "evidence-based" and "science-based" implies that they are currently using those terms, and this isn't such an obvious concern, and I feel is worth drawing attention to. Although perhaps I misunderstand those terms/the purpose of the CDC.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Sunday December 17 2017, @02:02PM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 17 2017, @02:02PM (#610973) Homepage Journal

      "Evidence-based" has a rather specific meaning in medicine. Most medical practice is not evidence-based in this sense. Doctors rely on their judgement, their experience in similar cases, the experience and expertise of colleagues, and so forth in treating patients. Most of the time it works well.

      But then come the scientists, who point out that none of that is a proper double-blind scientific study with control groups and statistical analysis. Of course they are right. It isn't. So is born "evidence-based" medicine, which does rely on proper scientific, testable studies. Often these properly controlled studies support existing practice. But every now and then they contradict common practice, so they are valuable and common practice changes.

      But it is not really feasible to practice only evidence-based medicine. There simply have not been enough properly executed scientific studies. And some things are even practically impossible to do proper double-blind studies on. As an example of such a thing in ordinary, non-medical experience, consider that there has never been a double-blind study on whether the use of a parachute improves survival when a person jumps out of an airplane.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @05:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @05:02PM (#611017)

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        (A nice change from invalid form key at least)

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Sunday December 17 2017, @03:20PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 17 2017, @03:20PM (#610989)

    In the specific context of the budgeting process, this is probably correct.

    They, being liberals, need to signal their holiness by worship of trans, for example, so if left to their own devices, instead of determining the proper budget for zika prevention vs cholea prevention will just religiously rant about hatred of all things Trump and how its great to be racist against white people etc. Actions that are good for their social "street cred" in the context of oppressive levels of political progressivism is not necessarily useful in the context of allocating the office supply budget between black bic pens vs #2 pencils with or without erasers.