So Trump just forbade the CDC from using the word "transgender"

[trish]

Just because Trump and his cronies don’t know words, now the rest of us have to prune our vocabularies too.

To be fair, according the the NYT (see https://nyti.ms/2k4hzQl ) the Department of Health and Human Services did not bar the CDC from using ‘science-based’, ‘transgender’, ‘vulernable’ etc. in their official reports, scientific publications, press releases or other communications with the public. Rather, the H.H.S. recommended against the use of these words in funding requests that are forwarded to Congress. Given the makeup of today’s Congress I can see the reasoning behind this recommendation.

Still, the very fact that the appearance of the words ‘science-based’, ‘evidence-based’, ‘vulnerable’, or ‘fetus’ can doom a CDC project request for funding says something about how lost, ignorant, mean-spirited and stupid our Congress has become - not to mention the Executive.

[buttslinger]

He forgot
8. Russia
9.Collusion

[Ben in LA]

Righties don’t want certain words said because they’re “politically correct”...then proceed to ban other words THEY don’t like like. Snowflakes.

[filghy2]

He forgot
8. Russia
9.Collusion

But hasn't the US always been friends with Russia - and always at war with Eastasia?

[IHEARTKALENA]

Lol this story

" who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly"

So it's more fake news based on an "anonymous source" that WaPo loves to use

[giovanni_hotel]

Lol this story

" who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly"

So it's more fake news based on an "anonymous source" that WaPo loves to use

Standard journalism practice in the real world bro.
If it was a fake story, the CDC would have already responded.

You're confusing the WaPo with Breitbart and the National Enquirer.

The WaPo broke Watergate, the Pentagon Papers and Iran/Contra using anonymous sources.
WHen you're a REAL news organization, you protect the identity of your sources to report the news.

Fake news organizations who get into the habit of reporting fake news eventually get sued for libel and slander out of existence.

[IHEARTKALENA]

Standard journalism practice in the real world bro.
If it was a fake story, the CDC would have already responded.

You're confusing the WaPo with Breitbart and the National Enquirer.

The WaPo broke Watergate, the Pentagon Papers and Iran/Contra using anonymous sources.
WHen you're a REAL news organization, you protect the identity of your sources to report the news.

Fake news organizations who get into the habit of reporting fake news eventually get sued for libel and slander out of existence.

God bless Peter Thiel

[buttslinger]

The CDC is headed by some Georgia chick who Tom Price appointed before he had to resign, they are in goosestep with every other Trump appointee who heads an Agency that they want to totally dismantle. Ten times scarier than the CDC is the State Dept, which Tillerson has turned into a skeleton crew, the next Democrat President can fire all these fools, but the damage will be done, let's hope it's effectively stopped next November, if Dems can retake the House and Senate. That would effectively disable Trump and his flunkies til we get the White House in 2020. That's the plan, anyway. So far, the Republicans are helping the plan ever since Trump stole the redneck branch of the GOP. CLOWNS!!!!!

[lifeisfiction]

Just because Trump and his cronies don’t know words, now the rest of us have to prune our vocabularies too.

To be fair, according the the NYT (see https://nyti.ms/2k4hzQl ) the Department of Health and Human Services did not bar the CDC from using ‘science-based’, ‘transgender’, ‘vulernable’ etc. in their official reports, scientific publications, press releases or other communications with the public. Rather, the H.H.S. recommended against the use of these words in funding requests that are forwarded to Congress. Given the makeup of today’s Congress I can see the reasoning behind this recommendation.

Still, the very fact that the appearance of the words ‘science-based’, ‘evidence-based’, ‘vulnerable’, or ‘fetus’ can doom a CDC project request for funding says something about how lost, ignorant, mean-spirited and stupid our Congress has become - not to mention the Executive.

The Zika virus, a cause of the brain abnormality macrocephaly, will have huge hurdles since it cannot mention the words, fetus, science-based, or evidence based. Wait until the lack of funding causes a huge spread in the virus. Of course as it currently stands no one in Congress or the active political forum is responsible for anything. It's always someone else's (who mind you does not have the power to do anything) fault therefore it does not requires them to fix the problem. It would be great if I didn't have to be responsible for anything. I entered the wrong occupation.

[dirkmcgee]

Standard journalism practice in the real world bro.
If it was a fake story, the CDC would have already responded.

You're confusing the WaPo with Breitbart and the National Enquirer.

The WaPo broke Watergate, the Pentagon Papers and Iran/Contra using anonymous sources.
WHen you're a REAL news organization, you protect the identity of your sources to report the news.

Fake news organizations who get into the habit of reporting fake news eventually get sued for libel and slander out of existence.

And the Lakers used to be a perennial 50 win team and title contender.

You're judging a publication who's suffered a startling fall from grace based on the past. WaPo is a joke by their own doing. That'll happen when you publish oppositional research straight from a political party without taking the time to try and verify it.