After report on CDC’s forbidden words policy draws outrage, HHS pushes back
The responses come after the scientific and public health community expressed outrage at the Friday report, which said analysts at the CDC were banned from using several words in their…
WASHINGTON — A spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department said Saturday the agency remains committed to the use of outcomes data and scientific evidence in its decisions, pushing back on the characterization of a Washington Post report that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now banned from using words like “science-based” and “transgender” in budget documents.
The spokesman, Matt
