A news story surfaced the other day that provided me with another "scratch your head" moment. Reading it I was thinking..."What are they thinking?? Just who is making this new rule? What country is this? Maybe this is fake news."
According to the Washington Post, and other sources, "The Trump administration has prohibited the Center for Disease Control from using the following words/terms: vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based and science-based in any official documents.....This censorship comes almost a year after barring the EPA from sharing information with the public and having it remove all references to climate change on its website."
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The administration offered no explanation.....but put the agency on notice that if these unacceptable words appear in grant requests the documents will have to be re-written or budgets and grants will be affected. Hmmmmm......so let's ignore evidence and science as health care decisions are made. Sounds like a really good idea as far as I'm concerned. Not.
Is our world spinning backward? Is the next edict going to proclaim that the world is flat and everything really was created in seven days???
It's sort of laughable, if it weren't so worrisome. And some of this ridiculousness hits pretty close to home. Our son, Todd, is Natural Resources Director for the Samish Indian Nation. His office is in the administration building out in Anacortes, Washington. I can remember him saying, as he wrote his grant requests for 2017, that he'd been instructed to remove all mention of "climate change" and "global warming" if he wanted the funding for important programs. He had to twist his language and stand on his head to present the facts without referring to the facts.
Again....laughable....if it wasn't so frightening. Want the money? Follow the new rules.
Hello out there.....who are you and who put you in charge? I'll never believe that 45 is coming up with all this stuff on his own......there is a Wizard of Oz hiding behind the screen.
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