http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/...c-from-using-evidence-based-and-science-based The Trump administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control from using the phrases “evidence-based” and “science-based” on official documents. Senior CDC officials distributed the list of “forbidden” words and phrases to policy analysts at the CDC on Thursday, the Washington Post reported Friday. The list also bans the use of “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender” and “fetus.” Analysts are reportedly prohibited from using the phrases on official documents they prepare for the 2019 budget, which is expected to be released in February. An analyst who attended the meeting at the CDC in Atlanta told the Washington Post that instead of “evidence-based” or “science-based,” policy analysts are instructed to use the phrase, “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes.” The analyst told the Post that other branches of President Trump’s health department are likely adhering to the same list of banned words. The source said that others at the meeting reacted with surprise when given the list. “It was very much, ‘Are you serious? Are you kidding?’” the analyst said, “In my experience, we’ve never had any pushback from an ideological standpoint.” The Trump administration has been repeatedly scrutinized for declining to acknowledge science-based findings, particularly related to climate change. Trump himself has not said whether he believes in climate science, and numerous members of his administration and his appointees have denied aspects of scientific consensus related to global warming.
Snowflakes can't handle words like science based evidence, transgendered, fetus, evidence based, vulnerable, entitlement and diversity. For such a free country our administration sure is trying to become the thought police. #MAGA m i ryte?
Remind me of anti sex education. Sex isn't going away just because you ban school from teaching it. This group sure love to bury the public head in the sand, and it will probably work great among Trump supporters.
Why would you ban CDC sicientists from using these words in their reports? Why? CDC is a department that should be run by technocrats, not politicians.
Oh they'll find some clever and hilarious and clear ways around this Neolithic stupidity-- believe that. But the jaw-dropping attack on facts continues from the worst administration ever.
The GOP using thought control method...no way!!! It’s not like the have a state tv propaganda network that practices the techniques of panic mongering, Ad Hominem, projection, history rewriting, diversion, scapegoating and guilt by association. The method is so blatantly obvious it’s almost lazy.
For a party whose slogan is against big government they sure like putting their noses in everything. People who throw stones shouldn't live in glass houses, they might catch one.
Finally!!!!!! We've waited far too long as nation for someone to stand up to the Center for Disease Control and their reckless use of the damaging phrase "evidence-based". America became a better nation, now that that issue has been dealt with! YES!!!!!!!!!!! F.U. Center for Disease Control!
Well seeing as the CDC is a government bureaucracy, the federal government can control every word that comes out of that department.
Ban all those words. . .then you can say stuff like "Well the Report did not say it had any SCIENCE BASED EVIDENCE" "The Report did not say it lacked diversity so we can assume the diversity issues is not a problem" "The report did not specifically call this an entitlement . . . " Rocket River
Words banned at CDC were also banned at other HHS agencies: report http://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...were-also-banned-at-other-hhs-agencies-report
