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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."
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:50AM (4 children)
Did you read the article? Its nothing like that.
"Science-based" and "evidence-based" are atrocious neologisms. In this case, the CDC specifically recommends saying "based on science". As for "transgender", they don't offer an explanation, but I can sort of see why they'd prefer talking about gender and sexual identity instead, because transgenders only refers to a narrow subset of that particular population.
In short, I have a feeling the CDC is trying to promote the use of better and more factual English, but is going about it rather clumsily.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:32AM (1 child)
We're on the same track. Take "diversity". It is used improperly more than it is used in a proper context. The term has been appropriated by our left, and used to beat whitey to death. Diversity is claimed to be the cure for so many of society's ills. It has almost no proper use in medicine or health care. X number of black people are suffering from some disease, and the "cure" involves DIVERSITY?!?! How in hell does that work? Extract diseased blood from those black people, inject it into white and latino and Asian people, to ensure that they get the disease? That's diversity? WTF?
Over the years, I've read a number of flyers, brochures, and articles from CDC, and they have definitely taken on a leftist flavor. CDC shouldn't be political. In effect, Trump has told them to knock it off. Present the facts, offer cures and solutions, but stop blaming Whitey for every problem. Whitey didn't create sickle cell anemia, after all, and no amount of diversity can cure it.
The only reason for including such a term in most reports and statements is to curry favor with the crowd that WAS in charge for the previous 8 years. Trump has told them to stop sucking up to the previous administration.
(Score: 5, Touché) by mhajicek on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:55AM
I have diversity in the species of grass on my lawn. The common cold has variable genetic diversity from year to year. There is a diversity of medical practices which vary from region to region.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 5, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:58AM
No, that's not true. They suggest (according to TFA) replacing with the phrase “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes."
In other words, if my "community" consists of those who believe climate change can't be real or that the earth is 6000 years old or that vaccines cause autism, my "community" may "wish" for other things and are therefore perfectly valid in adopting "standards" inconsistent with the recommendations of "science."
That's not "based on science." This is explicitly about allowing the promotion of "community" ideas that are NOT based on science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @06:57PM
Did you read the article?
Because you left the weirdest part of that recommendation, the part that is exactly what you accuse those of creating an "atrocious neologism" of doing.
FTFA: “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes"