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Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 2:43 am
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...f7b387792c
List of words the CDC can't use anymore:
Fetus
Science-Based
Transgender
Evidence-Based
Vulnerable
Diversity
Entitlement
Yeah, totally not fascism or anything like that. This is just crazy. What's next? "All scientific claims must start with "God"?" Republicans will quietly gloss over this, acting like this is totally normal.
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 3:11 am
How can you operate in the CDC and NOT use these words. How will they refer to a child in utero? Beanie Baby? What possible rationale could one have for banning the term evidence-based? That's bullshit.
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 5:02 am
(December 16, 2017 at 2:43 am)Cecelia Wrote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...f7b387792c
List of words the CDC can't use anymore:
Fetus
Science-Based
Transgender
Evidence-Based
Vulnerable
Diversity
Entitlement
Yeah, totally not fascism or anything like that. This is just crazy. What's next? "All scientific claims must start with "God"?" Republicans will quietly gloss over this, acting like this is totally normal.
That's double plus ungood.
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 8:19 am
While sad and stupid, I'm sure the people at the CDC will find alternate terms to use.
For example: fetus: new substitute word/phrase: implanted dick parasite.
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 8:50 am
(December 16, 2017 at 8:19 am)mh.brewer Wrote: While sad and stupid, I'm sure the people at the CDC will find alternate terms to use.
For example: fetus: new substitute word/phrase: implanted dick parasite.
Or they could be really devious and spell it proper: foetus.
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 8:58 am
(December 16, 2017 at 8:19 am)mh.brewer Wrote: While sad and stupid, I'm sure the people at the CDC will find alternate terms to use.
For example: fetus: new substitute word/phrase: implanted dick parasite.
Toothpick fish?
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 11:39 am
I remember one of the rare good things about Trump early on was that he was cool with the LGBT community. Apparently the rest of the administration got rid of that real quick.
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RE: Trump Administration bans CDC from using terms like "Science Based" and "Transgender"
December 16, 2017 at 1:12 pm
"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."
"Science in consideration with community standards and wishes"?
I can see where that is going!
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