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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 12:33 PM Dec 2017

The CDC was given marching orders to omit seven items in there reports...........................

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.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/15/cdc-banned-from-using-words-like-fetus-transgender-diversity/


Back in the day one man was barred from radio for saying this :




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The CDC was given marching orders to omit seven items in there reports........................... (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 2017 OP
Are we entering the "Dark Ages" or are these Nazi's? walkingman Dec 2017 #1
Maybe the key is to swap the verboten words 1 for 1 with Carlins. Girard442 Dec 2017 #2

Girard442

(6,075 posts)
2. Maybe the key is to swap the verboten words 1 for 1 with Carlins.
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:31 PM
Dec 2017

Make for some stirring scientific prose, no?

“Contraindications of large doses of caffeine for pregnant women and their motherfuckers.”

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