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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   
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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• Re:some good reasons for that Re:some good reasons for that (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:43PM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Sunday December 17 2017, @08:43PM (#611078) Journal

  Maybe if medical organizations were not a boring monoculture this would change.

  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.

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• Re:some good reasons for that (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:49PM (#611106)

  Funny - I haven't been seen by a male caucasian doctor since . . . . I think it was in 1985,

  “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.”

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