Newspeak, Reprise 0
Daniel Ruth comments on the proscription of the Center for Disease Control’s vocabulary. A snippet:
Sort of puts a new spin on swearing like a schoolmarm, doesn’t it?
Just why an agency charged with doing stuff related to health, which unfortunately requires committing science, would be prohibited from using words and phrases that are an intrinsic part of the medical lexicon isn’t entirely clear. But this is an administration that recoils in horror over a term like “climate change” as if it was a line of dialogue from Reservoir Dogs.
