CDC gets list of forbidden words

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The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s 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 year’s 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.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...0_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b21949d3f256
 
The Trump administration is weird. Wonder how long it will take before Trump is removed from his post due to lack of ability to properly carry out his duties.

Or maybe there is some strategy behind this, a desperate attempt to create controversy in order to distract from real problems, such as Trump's ties with Russia?
 
strategist said:
The Trump administration is weird. Wonder how long it will take before Trump is removed from his post due to lack of ability to properly carry out his duties.
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Never if his apologists in the senate can prevent it, they are now reportedly trying to dismiss Mueller's investigation into Trump's treason with Russia.
Its amazing that the right cries censorship nonstop when they are the ones practicing it. People voted for alternative facts and they are getting them :emoji_face_palm:

Getting back to the subject of the thread i suspect this is an experiment to see how far they can go and how much they can get away with.
 
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.
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Highlighted part by me.
 
When discussing this, please don't forget
Rule 12: No religion or non-ME politics
Religion and politics are inherently divisive subjects, with limited relevance to ME/CFS. Accordingly it is not permitted to promote or critique any religion, spiritual belief, or the lack thereof. Politics may be discussed strictly in the context of ME, but must still avoid any generalizations about members or supporters of political parties.
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Personally, as long as the discussion sticks narrowly to the subject of this thread then I'm inclined to leave this thread open, but be aware that I will have no issue if out-voted by other members of the moderating team who may take a less lenient interpretation of Rule 12. Continued criticism of the administration who are implementing this list will cause this thread to be closed.
 
This list is weird. I don't understand it. It's scary. Not being allowed to use "science based"? And what's wrong with "fetus"? Is this now really the return to the middle-ages?

@Andy
I've just thought this list might be connected to religious motifs - I remember some of my American relatives said they think about electing him due to his religious beliefs, don't know how much truth is in this - which we shouldn't discuss.
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The article says:

"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."
 
Or is it possible that the current inclusion of "vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity in CDC material indicates an established ideological standpoint?
 
The Food and Drug Administration hasn’t yet received or implemented a policy to ban words like “science-based” or “transgender,” according to an agency spokeswoman.

Analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were banned from using those and five other words, including “fetus,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” and “evidence-based,” in their budget documents in a Thursday meeting, according to a Washington Post report on Friday.

“We haven’t received, nor implemented, any directives with respect to the language used at FDA to describe our policy or budget issues,” the spokeswoman said in her full response.
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“You cannot fight against the Zika virus, or improve women’s and fetal health, if you are unable to use the word ‘fetus.’ You must be able to talk about science and evidence if you are to research cures for infectious diseases such as Ebola,” she said. “You must be able to acknowledge the humanity of transgender people in order to address their health care needs. You cannot erase health inequities faced by people of color simply by forbidding the use of the words ‘vulnerable’ or ‘diversity.’”
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https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/16/forbidden-words-fda-cdc/
 
Valentijn said:
You mean the ideology of identifying unmet needs and seeking to remedy them? It's sort of their job.
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OK - context is everything. Apart from their HR policy (and that's a particularly dubious context) in which context would 'diversity' be relevant to medical research or health provision?
 
Marco said:
OK - context is everything. Apart from their HR policy (and that's a particularly dubious context) in which context would 'diversity' be relevant to medical research or health provision?
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Diversity in populations studied is essential. Women can have very different symptoms compared to men when having a heart attack for example. Unawareness resulting from male-centered research meant that women were not being assessed or treated promptly, which had the effect of them tending to die after being patted on the head and told not to be so worried about their silly symptoms.
 
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