<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Apparently</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> in honor of​</div> George Carlin<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​'s famous Seven Words You Can'r Say On Television ​the</div> Trump administration has ordered The<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>Centers for Disease Control<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​, an agency with a 7 billion dollar yearly budget,  ​</div>not<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>to use seven words in any official documents<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">issued </div>next year.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ Instead of saying ​</div>“science-based” or ­“evidence-based”<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ they  must now say ​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"​</div>CDC recommendations <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​based ​</div>on science in consideration with community standards and wishes”<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​. So if a community wishes that somethings do cause disease ​(birth control and vaccines for example) then they do, and if a </div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">community does </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​not​</div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> wish </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​other things to ​</div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">cause disease</font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​ (​smoking, junk food, coal,) then they don't. That is the very essence of magical thinking. </font></div></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​The other 5 words the CDC must never utter are ​"</div></font>fetus”<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div> “transgender<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​",​</div> “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” and <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​"​</div>diversity<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​"</div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="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=.d1997205e507">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=.d1997205e507</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​    </div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark​</div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div>