12/17/17: The Thought Police are hard at work at the Centers for Disease Control. Today we learn scientists at CDC were admonished not to use these seven words or phrases in written reports: “science-based,” “evidence-based,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “diversity” “vulnerable,” or “entitlement.” Scientists will no longer blather on about “science-based” findings.
Here's a NASA video on climate change.
(Updated to include 2021.)
Wow, hot enough today for you, buddy?
In Trumpistan changing the wording passes for draining the swamp. You rebrand the swamp a “swimming pool.”
The Thought Police have already “drained the swamp” at the E.P.A., at NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by scrubbing all mention of climate change.
Now, government scientists may only ask in conversation or
for publication, “Wow, hot enough today for you, buddy?”
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12/18/17: The
Thought Police expand their efforts regarding the E.P.A. Scott Pruitt
gives approval to hire Definers Public Affairs to provide “media monitoring.”
Definers, which won a no-bid contract, just so happens to be affiliated
with America Rising, a Republican research group.
America Rising spent a good chunk of 2016 submitting Freedom of Information requests demanding the emails of various E.P.A. employees who had the nerve to:
A) Speak up at a private lunch and say the nation might be headed for an “environmental catastrophe.”
B) Write a letter to Pruitt, raising similar concerns.
C)
Attend a rally to protest budget cuts, which
would very possibly cripple the agency.
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