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by ppaattrriicckk 1114 days ago
Yeah, nah, I beg to differ: Just because the broader population might not (yet!) have an intuitive understanding of the field, and its shortcomings, I don't think we should rename decades of academic consensus. I have more faith in entire fields of research, at least.

I can't make up a good counterexample, so here's a so-so one: Fusion vs. fission power.

I've extremely rarely encountered the term "fission" outside of talks about fission power. Yet, I don't think we should call Fusion Power "Star-like energy generation" and Fission Power "never practically encountered power generation, but somewhat like star-like, except the opposite underlying mechanism"