Did you happen to read the Washington Post article sourced at the bottom of the Daily Beast article? I suspect no one replied to you because you probably won't find the testimonies of the workers to be "facts" nor will you be convinced by the fact that this kind of language banning has already happened at other departments too. You're also notorious for cfring things that are pretty obvious or easy to locate just to derail conversation... So there is that too.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
Did you happen to read the Washington Post article sourced at the bottom of the Daily Beast article? I suspect no one replied to you because you probably won't find the testimonies of the workers to be "facts" nor will you be convinced by the fact that this kind of language banning has already happened at other departments too. You're also notorious for cfring things that are pretty obvious or easy to locate just to derail conversation... So there is that too.
In addition to the sources already being listed in the link, every major legitimate news organization running with the story due to finding that original sourcing credible, and the underlying plausibility of the story, there's also the fact that the CDC is no-commenting it rather than issuing a denial. That's enough to find the allegation credible to be highly likely true.
Subs, a guy who believes that the Clintons have had people like Vince Foster systematically murdered, holds up a burden of proof that is vastly different for things he wants to believe than things he doesn't want to believe. (Or at least pretend to.) The thing about that in this case is that it is a tell that he thinks this story is damning if true, which it very likely is. Based on his trollish defense, he's implicitly chiming in with everyone else in saying this is bad.
Did you happen to read the Washington Post article sourced at the bottom of the Daily Beast article? I suspect no one replied to you because you probably won't find the testimonies of the workers to be "facts" nor will you be convinced by the fact that this kind of language banning has already happened at other departments too. You're also notorious for cfring things that are pretty obvious or easy to locate just to derail conversation... So there is that too.
Notwithstanding Washington Post as a pathetic news outlet.... Yes, I did read it...and yet there is no actual source cited for the ban. In other words we don't know where the ban was issued from or have a copy of any official document, memo, etc. But if I missed the actual facts about this story, please help me find them in that article. Who told Washington Post about these words and who issued the ban at CDC?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Or you could review the article that is referenced from the OP and find where actual sources are cited...ya know, the "according to..." quote.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Jersey Girl wrote:Somewhere in my online travels this afternoon, I read that the list of words was banned from a report. Not that they were banned forever.
I suppose that's marginally better, but it doesn't give me much comfort. They were told not to use those words in budget requests that go up the ladder. So, we have guys at the higher levels of the administration that look at the term "evidence based" as something bad. Sad!
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Jersey Girl wrote:Somewhere in my online travels this afternoon, I read that the list of words was banned from a report. Not that they were banned forever.
I suppose that's marginally better, but it doesn't give me much comfort. They were told not to use those words in budget requests that go up the ladder. So, we have guys at the higher levels of the administration that look at the term "evidence based" as something bad. Sad!
The CDC director has now issued a denial, thought that denial was worded in such a way that does not actually touch the initial claim. The initial claim is that the policy analyst wing was told not to write reports using those terms.
"Evidence-based" and "Science-based" are terms of art in medicine and biology that are in conflict with one another. The term "science-based" was invented to contrast with "evidence-based" by arguing that both the results of clinical experiments and underlying theoretical plausibility must be considered in making scientific evaluations. That both got banned was humorous to me, but the fact that either is a trigger-word for the right-wing version of political correctness of whomever up the chain is a terrible sign for the rest of their decision making.
EAllusion wrote:Our country is a tire-fire. We're powerful, so this is a serious problem for the rest of the world.
"This" = "Our country is a tire fire," or "This" = "The CDC has a list of banned words?"
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
EAllusion wrote:Our country is a tire-fire. We're powerful, so this is a serious problem for the rest of the world.
"This" = "Our country is a tire fire," or "This" = "The CDC has a list of banned words?"
This refers to the sentence that precedes it. That our country is highly dysfunctional and deteriorating isn't a US specific problem because the US has such potent military and economic might that its problems are the world's problems.
