in which situation would you need to describe “tgirl dick” in a scientific way and why would you use girl instead of woman while talking about penises.
Stigler's Law of Eponymy states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. It was first proposed by sociologist Robert K. Merton, but statistician Stephen Stigler, in fulfillment of the law, named it after himself in 1980, tongue-in-cheek. You may know Robert Merton ...
For a new species for science, those who write the paper describing the species can give the scientific name. Not sure how giving the common English name would work on this situation.
But the consensus can still be wrong, can’t it? The history of science is peppered with new ideas which don’t agree with the scientific consensus of the day but turn out on further investigation to be true. Plate Tectonics is less than a century old, and duelling palaeontologists around for ever!
Organised by Phil Martin, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain) and Matt Grainger, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Norway)
