PeteFree.comUS policy institutionalizes rank stupidity — the Trump Administration's attack on — the Centers for Disease Control's ability to communicate science
© 2017 Peter Free
16 December 2017
More from the alleged "moron" in the White House
Shades of the Middle Ages:
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.”
© 2017 Avery Anapol, CDC banned from using 'evidence-based' and 'science-based' on official documents: report, The Hill (15 December 2017)
That last White House recommended sentence is code for the New American Inquisition's preserved ability to burn Galileo's scientific rump at the stake, if necessary.
If the American Congress were not comprised of an overabundance of drool-happy, Republican Party butt lickers . . .
. . . a measure of sanity might be regained. But the likelihood of that happening is statistically similar to hoping that the evidence-(un)based Easter Bunny is real.
The Orange Pufferoo strides manfully on, sowing his seeds of magnificently dumb and nationally destructive rectitude far and wide.
The moral? — At this point, ours is not a respect-worthy nation
Descriptively appropriate are the "evidence-based" phrases:
malignantly brain-dead,
idol-worshipping,
war stooges.
Exceptional, indeed.