Kristian G. AndersenGeverifieerd account

This story is concerning, however, we shouldn’t jump to quick conclusions. It’s possible the (verbal) ban list could be from CDC administrators (not Trump Admin) wanting to pass their budget more smoothly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.17fd087942ac …

Some of the news have missed the part about these words being banned from budget documents, not the CDC as a whole. Yes, it’s totally crazy, but it’s likely not presidential censorship (as most news stories have it).

you might be correct http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/12/16/hhs-responds-to-wapo-cdc-report-sot-nr.cnn …

It comes across as a direct ban for the budget and a more looming threat overall, imo. Congress has a bad track record of retaliatory CDC funding cuts, most notably with gun violence research.

Just doesn’t make sense to me that this comes from the Trump administration as @washingtonpost and others said. I think this is likely a (semi)self-imposed ban, not presidential censorship to get budgets through and make their life easier.

By cutting these words out of budget documents, they are less likely to tick off a crazy administration and Congress. That’s of course still bloody crazy that the CDC (and others) would even have to consider this, but it’s a different kind of crazy than censorship.