The Deadly Cost of Censoring the CDC
Caption: Photo of baby getting vaccinated (James Gathany, Judy Schmidt, USCDCP/Pixnio)
Yesterday, I asked for people constructing Fetus jokes to bring attention to our Center For Disease Control being told they couldn’t use the world Fetus.
In a bold move from the Trump administration, by executive order, 7 words were banned from CDC. This news has spread like wildfire, so we don’t really have to go over it again and again.
I first heard the phrase “evidence-based” about fifteen years ago, when I was working as a doula and parent educator in Austin, TX. One of the OBGyns wore a button with the phrase, “I practice evidence-based medicine.” When I…
Combatting the Trump Word Ban
As many of you know the Center for Disease Control has been forbidden to use the terms “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
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The administration has sent a list of 7 words to the CDC that are forbidden: diversity, fetus, transgender, etc. In a country that prides itself on freedom of speech and finds censorship repugnant in all its forms, this is a particularly distasteful and offensive action.
