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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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"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:35AM (11 children)
You need to get fucked by the horse you rode in on. One of the mosst horrible things I've seen over my life has been the progressive rape of language by the (predominantly christian in name) neo-cons. Clear language is what those dirty commoners use to equalize the battle. Can't have them communicating clearly or in depth.
Vulnerable: some readily identifiable groups have higher subsceptibility to various epidemics, and/or respond in consistently worse ways to "standard" treatment. The word exists for a reason, and it's hard to corrupt. Better ban it.
Entitlement: I'm giving this a small bit of personal space, because there are some hornets in the American language that even I am unwilling to stir up. Much. Do you think you're entitled to call the police? Or stop signs? Or an insurance payout if you get hit by a car? Hint: you are.
Diversity: did you know that a heart attack presents different symptoms in men and women? Or that treatment afterwards can vary depending on your race? Most white male doctors don't, and that's not changing any time soon because doctors are, for the most part, trained by and for white men. Maybe if medical organizations were not a boring monoculture this would change.
Transgender: guess what, they are at higer risk for a whole barrel of diseases, and half of that results from social attitudes such as yours. Go die in a fire, by the way.
Fetus: are epidemiologists supposed to stop talking about zika? Or possibly safer methods of abortion? Again, go die in a fire.
Evidence/science based: You're just grasping at straws now. Except you're punching the rest of us in the face first. I direct you to this classic [teenvogue.com]: "Don't use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that shit."
Go, tell the Reagan Foundation that you tried. And failed. You wers stopped in your tracks by a drunken fool who couls still see rgiht through yoru lies.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:01AM (2 children)
Zika is a virus that causes brain damage, particularly in unborn children.
See? That works great. It's perfect, unless you are trying to dehumanize little kids so that your conscience doesn't bother you when you kill them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @11:58AM (1 child)
Fetus is a term of science that applies to all gestating animals. So the CDC is going to start calling fetal pigs unborn pigs too in order to avoid dehumanizing pigs?
PS The Unborn sounds like the name of a horror movie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @02:32AM
Don't worry though; we can start referring to them as fetal hominids so as to be more specific, and thus have higher quality writing.
Calling them unborn children would be foolish; childhood is a stage of development that begins after birth.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:23AM (4 children)
You think there is "progressive rape of language by the (predominantly christian in name) neo-cons. Clear language is what those dirty commoners use to equalize the battle. Can't have them communicating clearly or in depth."
OK, how about liberals trying to replace the correct legal term "illegal alien" with "undocumented immigrant"?
Don't you want clear language?
1. They are illegal. (our law says so)
2. They are aliens. (by dictionary: a noncitizen; owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign; an outsider)
3. They are not undocumented. (They buy documents on the black market. They might be using YOUR documents.)
4. They are not immigrants. (according the the IRS: An alien who has been granted the right by the USCIS to reside permanently in the United States and to work without restrictions in the United States.)
If being "undocumented" is OK, then maybe I don't need a gun permit in California? I can be an undocumented gun owner. Maybe if I have sex with you without asking, I'll be be an undocumented spouse. If I wander about your house, I'm an undocumented resident. No, this is a load of nonsense.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @02:46PM
And you too can go burn in the very lake of fire you are terrified of ending up in when you finally kick the bucket.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:53PM (2 children)
Over-staying your visa isn't even a crime [procon.org] and entering the US illegally is just a misdemeanor.
And visa over-stays make up more than half of the total number of "illegal immigrants."? [washingtontimes.com]
So, unless you've been going around calling jaywalkers "illegal citizens" you are just a damn hypocrite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @04:49AM (1 child)
Misdemeanors are illegal acts, you stupid fuck. You take the fact that a misdemeanor is LESS OF an illegal act than something like first degree murder, then try to make that less illegal act into legal? You are one STUPID motherfucker. Illegal aliens are breaking the law - THAT is what makes them "illegal aliens".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @11:40AM
And jaywalking is a misdemeanor. But you go ahead and spazz out all you want. Temper tantrums are the best way to prove U R the smartest person in the room.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:34AM
Yeah, there is a heart drug approved only for black people. Never mind that this gets interesting with the whole liberal idea that you can self-identify as whatever race you like.
Basically, the drug company abused statistics. Lots of drugs fail, and this one did too... until they only counted the black people who were studied. It then squeaked by, just barely passing.
The problem is how the statistics are being used. Specify a p-value that you like, so that there is only a tiny chance that the results are false. Do a trial, get good results, and everything is fine... probably. Say you have your p-value set for only a 1-in-1000 chance of false results. Hey, pretty sure it is a good drug! Oh, wait, you tried 5000 drugs. You're getting false results almost certainly. Worse yet, the drug company just sliced and diced the data until they got a result they could sell. They tried every way of dividing up the data until they lucked out and managed to pass the statistical requirement for selling the drug.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:43PM (1 child)
Funny - I haven't been seen by a male caucasian doctor since . . . . I think it was in 1985, when I had a work related accident in Chicago. I woke up in an ER, to see some white dude hovering over me, checking for signs of neuro problems. Since then, I've been seen by a white female doctor, a Vietnames male, a Peruvian male, and a Black male. I've had physicals for work by an Indian male doctor. That monoculture you mention seems to have melted away somewhere, sometime.
Oh, wait, to be fair, I've seen two male caucasian eye doctors - presumably hetero. A male caucasian delivered my first son. Another delivered my second son. Third son was a complicated birth, and an entire TEAM was involved in that - black, white, and Indian. Likewise, the nurses and orderlies present were a mixed bunch.
But, whatever. Keep telling yourself about that monoculture.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:49PM
“Fake news would tell you that we don’t care for mud people. I tell you all this because I’ve seen it also; I just want to set the record straight while they’re here. Some of of our doctors are mud people. We have very close friends who are mud people and we also fellowship with them.”