"It's not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention text file is still pretty jarring. The odd file was uncovered by an X-formerly-Twitter user who goes by the name "charlie." "Does anyone want to see the scary ass dcd webpage I accidentally stumbled upon just now," charlie asked in a post. In the comments, they link to a CDC.gov text file which - how do we say this delicately? - raises some pretty striking questions. (Archived version here.)"
"It's basically a mile-long list of single words that seems to have been live since 2009. The first word, "DAMNATORY," pretty much sets the tone for the rest of it. And sure, there are words a layman might expect the CDC to use: "CAPILLARIES," "BLOODLINES," "TUBERCULIDE." But there are a whole lot more that don't seem appropriate for any government agency, let alone the CDC. There are silly words like "GOOFBALL" and "WHOMPS," but also some more horrific ones like "WHORES," "TORTURED," and "DEHYPNOTIZE." Still more are downright bizarre, such as "COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES," "SWORDPLAY," and "NECROMANCY." Don't get us started on "WASHERWOMAN" and "LOVEMAKING." There are also some severe racial and antisemitic slurs we won't include in this blog, making the list all the more baffling and sinister in tone."
"Looking at the URL path, the site seems related to the CDC's Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS), a program first developed in 1967 to automate entry, classification, and retrieval of cause-of-death information from death certificates. If this is the case, then the subdirectory "
A user on X named "charlie" linked to a CDC.gov text file that appears to be a mile-long list of single words and has been live since 2009. The list mixes expected medical terms like CAPILLARIES and TUBERCULIDE with absurd entries such as GOOFBALL and WHOMPS, violent or sexual terms like WHORES and LOVEMAKING, and offensive racial and antisemitic slurs. Online reactions ranged from bewilderment to dark humor. The URL path appears tied to the CDC Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS), which automates cause-of-death data from death certificates.
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