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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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Original Submission

• Re:We can talk about zika. Re:We can talk about zika. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @11:58AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @11:58AM (#611345)

  Zika is a virus that causes brain damage, particularly in unborn children.

  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.

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• Re:We can talk about zika. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @02:32AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @02:32AM (#611681)

  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.

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