Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-207.254.224.12-20140717193212/@comment-25184427-20140720015845

You can be as confident as you'd like. it doesn't mean you are using the word correctly. In fact, if you studied the root words, you wouldn't even need to know the definition to know you aren't using it correctly.

Also, those who work at the Centers for Disease Control got it wrong. It is ok that they got it wrong, because they are biologists, not English majors....but as journalist, I expect more from you.