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Author: rodneyAnonymous

Feb 2nd 2013 at 3:23:35 PM

The current name '''must''' change. "I don't think it's offensive" is completely irrelevant, nobody has made any claims about what you think. It can easily be read as expressing the opinion that science is opposed to progress, which is false and insulting. TVT should not express opinions.

(The names ScienceIsBad and ScienceIsWrong do not express an opinion, those are exactly what the trope is. "Science is opposed to progress" is not the point of this, it is an implication of the name when the draft describes something else.)

This is not a question or an argument, it is a statement. I strenuously object. A member of the science community doesn't like it. No amount of endorsement from outside the community makes any difference at all. If an Asian objected to the name AChinkInTheArmor to describe a flaw in a fortress, no argument could possibly convince them to withdraw it.

Bulldozing a rainforest is "progress"?! That is not the right word, anyway. ScienceVersusIndustry, perhaps, if you don't like {{Research}}.