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These are the times I miss the wit and wisdom of the late George Carlin. He would eviscerate this story in his own inimitable way.
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It is the CDC -Centers for Disease Control and they are not allowed to use the term evidence based. So they are supposed to use some mumbojumbo phrases that have no real place in science. Good luck during the next epidemic.
And the banning the word fetus is completely ridiculous. What are researchers to call it, a teenaged embryo, baby in waiting?
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This GOP bullshit has been going on since W was in office and trying to manage scientists is an old Russian trick and it makes me furious.
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So would George Orwell.
I suppose Carlin would call them The Seven Words You Can Never Say In The CDC: entitlement, fetus, vulnerable, diversity, science-based, evidence-based, and transgender.
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Always the unborn with these people, never a thought for the undead.
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I am reading "Leonardo Da Vinci"by Walter Isaacson.
Da Vinci ,in 1490, was more advanced in science then any of the Trumptards.
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CDC employees will comply or they will be replaced with Liberty University grads who will comply. Bad or worse, take your pick.
Personally I am starting to cheer on the awfulness because the backlash is coming and the more awful they are now, the more thoroughly they will be rooted out.
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Thanks, Susan.
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Your cheerful willingness that others suffer to achieve ends we might be able to reach by other means is noted.
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I’d love to see a wholesale refusal and defiance of this unlawful order.
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It was George Carlin homage, but when I read the Halftime Report at Fox News and dude is openly mocking 45 and the people who believe his nonsense it does give me hope.
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It needs work.
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“In my experience, we’ve never had any pushback from an ideological standpoint,” said the analyst.
Had you been paying attention, you may have seen this coming. Besides, nobody escapes the Trump stink.
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I’d like to know how this kind of shit is enforced.
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Waterboarding & Termination.
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They should probably ban Orwell / Orwellian as well before some scientist sneaks it into one of their papers.
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I had the same reaction when I first read this. However, it’s so crazy my first thought was that something didn’t seem right.
There is an alternate read here. It’s STILL crazy but not in the way you’d think.
This is the BUDGET document that goes before Congress/Administration to approve the budget.
Is is possible this is the folks at the CDC trying to be clever?
“OK let’s just take out all the words that freak out the toadies and replace them with words they like. This way we get to do what we want and avoid a bunch of drama and grandstanding.”
In other words, this is about framing what they are going to do, not changing the actual work.
If you read the article carefully it seems to conflate two things:
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 official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.
Then later:
At the CDC, the meeting about the banned words was led by Alison Kelly, a senior leader in the agency’s Office of Financial Services, according to the CDC analyst, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly. Kelly did not say why the words are being banned, according to the analyst, and told the group that she was merely relaying the information.
What the article does NOT say is “crazy people in the Administration ordered them not to use these words.”
I realize that the CDC was banned from doing gun research so this smells familiar but I think this might be the press getting caught in the budget author’s game.
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