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Wait...so not one, but two Pulitzer nominations?

 

I’m not so sure ... “Science-based” is not a scientific phrase. It wouldn’t be used by scientists when they’re doing science. It might be used by scientists when they’re doing politics, though ...

 

It sure would be used, along with “evidence-based,” when explaining scientific findings to the public.

Yeah, “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes” really strips the politics out of it.

 

Maybe the concern is those phrases have been (or could be) co-opted by less-than-scientific types for less-than-scientific reasons. I may be wrong, but I’m not inclined, in this instance, to default to the sinister explanation.

 

Yep. Sounds like an editor telling his/her writer to stop making lazy word choices.

 

The signs of mental illness were right there, for all of us to see.

 

You don't believe in math?

 

Almost the entire scope of what the CDC does is based on scientific evidence.

 

Go on. I don’t see any reason why they can’t make the point they are trying to make, without relying on lazy word choices.

 

It’s calling something exactly what it is.

The CDC’s Zika virus surveillance reports are based on science and evidence, not on “community standards and wishes,” whatever the fuck that means.

 

Sure I do. I’m just not buying their spin.