Flailing through the Archives

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/04/usfunded-health-sear.html

This is absurd.  I’m really ticked off.   This story has been picked up by multiple blogs already, but we were discussing Thesaurus(es? i?) in class yesterday, I thought it was really interesting.

Limiting search terms hurts everyone.  By removing a commonly used MEDICAL TERM from the thesaurus with no warning is irresponsible and is a violation of trust.

By limiting results as a search, both sides are hurt.  Anti-Abortion rights activists cannot access information that would help him, and Pro Abortion Rights activists cannot access information that would help them.  It doesn’t matter what side of this debate you are on, the censorship of a common medical term hurts everyone.  Say you wanted to write an editorial about abortion and wanted to search this database for information to make your point… because it is a federal funded database, you wouldn’t be able to get your information.

Now, how about that for not being a good thing?