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CDC Banned from Using 7 Words

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by dandorotik, Dec 16, 2017.

  1. Amiga

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    Get fired, demoted, disciplined, and whatever else that can happen when not following government policies?
     
  2. Rashmon

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    According to longer article by NYT, this is being mis-construed by a lot of libs, including myself on page 1.

    The "banned" words are an internal suggestion, according to someone within the CDC. Administrators (many pre-dating MAGA) suggested avoiding these words in order to give their proposals to conservative-controlled Congress the highest chance of being funded.

    So, it's not the executive branch shutting down scientists. It's still sad: it is, most probably, cynical administrators and bureaucrats knowing that they have to avoid GOP-snowflake vocab about science, diversity, etc. Just avoid those terms as much as possible and funding proposals stand a better chance of being approved by the crazy-ass y'all-qaeda House of Reps.

    I get it. But it's not, most probably, what many of us first assumed.
     
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    Correct. I am on a mailing list where there was a lot of uproar about this when it happened.

    Someone then corrected: "The #CDC7words aren’t banned from use. They are words to avoid in the budget proposal to get the CDC’s budget passed."

    But also asked "Is that the “new truth“ because of the uproar or is that the original truth?"
     
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    Nevermind... beat to it
     

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