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The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nations top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases including fetus and transgender in any official documents being prepared for next years budget.
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.
In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of science-based or evidence-based, the suggested phrase is CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes, the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.
The question of how to address such issues as sexual orientation, gender identity and abortion rights all of which received significant visibility under the Obama administration has surfaced repeatedly in federal agencies since President Trump took office. Several key departments including Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, as well as Justice, Education, and Housing and Urban Development have changed some federal policies and how they collect government information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
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?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_cdc-725pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.b10d0c2437a0
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They started doing this large-scale back in the 1970s, of course, and have had a great deal of success in directing the thoughts of a giant nation.
ancianita
(36,060 posts)oasis
(49,388 posts)Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)Oh and BTW why do these fucks squeal about "Shariah Law"... The seem to be implementing their own version.
janterry
(4,429 posts)So, they really are looking to use opinion as the basis for science?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)and wishes."
Wishes? Well, I sho' nuff do wish the earth wuz flat like it yewster be. Yup. Yup yup.
Congratulations, President Lardass. Speaking about science is now on par with pornography.