In the Life, etc., section Tuesday, the headline on a story about a young woman with Down syndrome wrongly referred to people with the syndrome as patients and sufferers. No one in the story was a patient in a medical facility, and no one in the story was suffering. Link
We should not have described Down’s syndrome as causing mental retardation, a phrase proscribed by our style guide (Researchers devise safer Down’s syndrome test, page 8, October 7). Link
