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Re: Follow the science!

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Lars Gebauer <lgebauer@live.de> writes:

> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/14/words-male-female-should-banned-science-enforce-idea-sex-binary/
>
> | The words “male” and “female” should be phased out in science because
> | they reinforce ideas that sex is binary, scientists have suggested.
> |
> | Researchers studying ecology and evolutionary biology should be
> | encouraged to use terms such as “sperm-producing” or “egg producing”
> | or “XY/XX individual” to avoid “emphasising hetero-normative views”,
> | experts say.
> |
> | Other words and terms deemed problematic include man, woman, mother,
> | father, primitive, advanced, alien, invasive, exotic, non-native and
> | race.
> |
> | The terms were gathered as part of the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary
> | Biology) Language Project, founded by a collaboration of scientists in
> | the US and Canada who claim some terminology is not inclusive, and
> | could be harmful.
> |
> | Even one of the most famous scientific concepts of all time, the
> | “survival of the fittest”, should no longer be used because it
> | discriminates against people with disabilities and is linked to
> | eugenics, they advise.

Mein Vorschlag dazu: 25 auf die nackten Fußsohlen. Nackt darf man doch
noch sagen?

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