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CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words: Science-Based, Evidence-Based, Vulnerable, Fetus, ...

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:32AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:32AM (#610908) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by mhajicek on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:55AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:55AM (#610938)

    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.

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    The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek