Now Woke Scientists Are Gunning For Words And Phrases They Think Should Be Banned – By Joseph Curl (Daily Wire) / Feb 17, 2023
Whoops. Shouldn’t have said “gunning” in that headline. That’s violent. Apologies.
Members of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Project — founded by scientists in the U.S. and Canada — have put out a list of “harmful terminology” in science that they want banned.
Writing in the Trends in Ecology and Evolution journal, the scientists say they want to “champion inclusive language” in science, which is “particularly important for redressing the ongoing marginalization of many groups.”
They laid out 24 words and phrases to which they object, and offered replacements.
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