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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.

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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."

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: 2) by Tara Li on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:26PM

    by Tara Li (6248) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @09:26PM (#612550)

    Actually, turns out this wasn't the Trump administration. The words were already being identified and pushed back against in a CDC presentation pushed out in May or June of 2016 (The internal slide says May 2016, the filename says 060217).

    https://www.cdc.gov/other/pdf/everydaywords-060216-final.pdf [cdc.gov]

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