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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/ar-BBGNo02Policy 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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The longtime CDC analyst, whose job includes writing descriptions of the CDC's work for the administration's annual spending blueprint, could not recall a previous time when words were banned from budget documents because they were considered controversial.
The reaction of people in the meeting was "incredulous," the analyst said. "It was very much, 'Are you serious? Are you kidding?'?"
"In my experience, we've never had any pushback from an ideological standpoint," the analyst said.
News of the ban on certain words hasn't yet spread to the broader group of scientists at the CDC, but it's likely to provoke a backlash, the analyst said. "Our subject matter experts will not lay down quietly this hasn't trickled down to them yet."
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Is this not a violation of the 1st Amendment right of free speech? Surely this will be challenged in court?
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)I just don't see how you do that.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)The question is, do government agencies have constitutional rights, in this case the 1st amendment?
But given that the bill of rights guarantees rights of people against government intrusion, taking the position that the government has rights against intrusion from itself is a bit of a head scratcher.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)Because they cannot identify the patient.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)This is starting to sound familiar
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)increasingly since the 1970s. We see it brought here daily. When does a sentence that starts, "The Democrats..." NOT signal an attack?
IggleDuer
(964 posts)The restrictions were removed by the Orange one.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)By manipulating the language, the Trump administration is using tried and true propaganda techniques, even for health agencies. It's all well-planned to influence people's thinking.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Cape Breton (Canada), France, and Australia beckon.
treestar
(82,383 posts)for any given word.
If there is a study about transgender people and they cannot use the word "transgender" there will be some word they can use. Or invent one if necessary, one that will get the idea across.
The last too: just use "the evidence is" and that "the science shows"
Girard442
(6,075 posts)Naturally occurring deposits of stupid that large aren't found just anywhere.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They are so obvious! They don't want to hear the term "vulnerable?" LOL.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,738 posts)Sounds like the maladministration is trying to turn the CDC into a faith-based organization with the language police.
bluestarone
(16,956 posts)NEVER thought this would take place here!!!! WHERE ARE THE TRUE AMERICANS TODAY?
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)they will be fired and lynch-mobbed out after being falsely accused of fake "crimes." We might have missed a few, but have no fear... all will be well, soon enough.
Shhh just rest and best not to think about it!
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)This is shocking and wholly unacceptable.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I honestly thought this was a joke. Everyday I wake up and there is another "WTF" action or statement from this administration. It is getting unbearable.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Fuck them and their UnAmerican restrictions.
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)So now the CDC can make up new terms. Fetus can now be a clump of cells forming by 8 weeks.
Come on, have fun with this. Could be a stupid Christmas party game.
treestar
(82,383 posts)transgender - transsex
fetus - cell clump
it will sound even worse to them
vulnerable - susceptible
entitlement - claim, right
evidence based: denoting disciplines of health care that proceed empirically with regard to the patient and reject more traditional protocols. (the definition when googled). So just call them patient-empirical
science based: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/about-science-based-medicine/
appears to be used as an opposite of "alternative medicine."
The Science-Based Medicine editorial staff describes themselves as "being alarmed at the manner in which unscientific and pseudoscientific health care ideas have increasingly infiltrated academic medicine and medicine at large"; they state that the best medicine is based on scientific principles, which includes prior plausibility, not based on evidence alone.[14]
LOL, really all that needs to be called is "medicine" as it is a science.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)but go with the longest sentences possible. Republicans aren't big readers, make them work and work.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)There is medicine, and health scams.
Nitram
(22,803 posts)climate change: climate disaster; Weathergeddon; Revenge of the Dinosaurs
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)It will be a unborn child or just child. That plays into a anti-choice spin.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)But you think of being told for 30 years they are gonna stop abortions they would of by now.
They are useful idiots.
DFW
(54,388 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)Our democracy and all of its freedoms are under assault by the Republicans. When fact-based and science-based words are banned, we are on a precipice.
underpants
(182,819 posts)orleans
(34,053 posts)DONALD-TRUMP-IS-A-FUCKING-ASSHOLE
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Control the curriculum and the language in it; control the future of the country.
"Give me a child when he's 7 and he's mine forever,"
--Adolf Hitler
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Must be some banana republic led by a psychotic authoritarian ruler.
Nitram
(22,803 posts)using every single one of the verboten words. Then sue if the are fired. They would win the suit, I guarantee you. You can't forbid people to use words that are essential to current scientific research.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Nothing to see here citizens, move along.