• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No.

    A couple researchers suggesting a literary review of the specific usage of a word and how it is used in specific contexts within scientific literature is a far cry from the idea that scientists in general are claiming that the word caucasian is a generally racist word.

    • planish@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I don’t know that scientists in general (from chemists to seismologists) know it, but the people who study what scientists ought to call groups of people seem to have reached consensus.