It worked for the DHS report

DrewM at Ace of Spades writes that the the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which unleashed a firestorm last week when they announced that women between the ages of 40 and 49 don’t need breast examinations, has retracted the statement.

“The recommendation about breast cancer screening for women 40 to 49 did not say what the task force meant to say. The task force communication was poor,” insisted Dr. Diana Petitti with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
The panel also backpedaled by saying it won’t recommend against screening.

Petitti said, “We need to immediately figure out how to get that statement off the website.”

Sound familiar? It’s kind of similar to what Janet Napolitano told the Washington Times about the DHS report which they pulled when veterans’ groups went ape shit;

“The wheels came off the wagon because the vetting process was not followed,” Ms. Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.

“The report is no longer out there,” she said. “An employee sent it out without authorization.”

It didn’t say what we wanted it to say – it’s not our fault, it’s that damn English which is so imprecise that we can’t hide, er…get our point across. What are all of these people doing, anyway? Do they all have so much time on their hands that read every word we write or something?

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