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At the CDC?

 

No, beyond the CDC ...

 

I'm so confused. I thought Lord Trump was going to be the voice of the voiceless. A populist.

 

Yeah, but the story is that those vocabulary limitations were being put in place on employees and scientists at the CDC. That's really got nothing to do with what people elsewhere say.

 

Well, I already have an anus, so I'm halfway there.

 

The limitations had to do with budget documents. My conjecture (and it was nothing more than that) was that the CDC might be concerned with how certain phrases, because of how they’re used elsewhere, could compromise what the CDC’s actually trying to do.

 

The concern does not seem to be originating with the CDC.


"Trump administration officials are forbidding 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."

 

What is the equation for ignorance?

 

n = p(k + rk')

 

It's not a default. Telling them any words are forbidden should be reason enough to find this despicable. That you are writing something that seems like defense of this policy means you are dropping into YankeeFan territory.

Those aren't lazy word choices, as YF suggested. It is comical for him to be using that argument, but I guess you think that is fine as well.

 

If that was a concern coming from the CDC itself, that might be a valid point. But as NC pointed out, that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

What word choice can be used in place of "fetus?"