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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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Once you get on the euphemism treadmill, you're going to have a hard time getting off. They're already talking about making more changes:
IMO the only hard line, and the one that should have been drawn, is that scientific names are only changed due to new discoveries in cladistics. Following wherever the winds of popular culture happen to blow isn't "updating information" in a positive sense.