Florida scientist told to cut words 'climate change' from study on climate change

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By late January of this year, Elizabeth Radke figured she was pretty much done with Florida. She had already graduated from the University of Florida, where she had gotten her PhD in epidemiology. She had moved from the Sunshine State to the Washington area, where she took a job at Arlington County's public health department. And her dissertation, which looked at how climate change in Florida had affected ciguatera - a commonly reported marine food-borne illness - was getting closer to publication.

But then, on January 27, a message popped into her inbox. Subject: "Paper Review." And Radke realised she wasn't through with Florida yet. In fact, she was about to get dragged into what has now become a national scandal over an alleged "unwritten policy" among some Florida state environmental offices that forbids the use of terms such as "climate change" and "global warming" in official correspondence.

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