Spyke
lemmy.world

They've done away with naming diseases after people. Most new diseases now have descriptive names. E.g., Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

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Johandeareply
feddit.nu

And some diseases are renamed and actively encouraged to not use the old name. A prime example is granulomatosis with polyangitis, formerly known as Wegener's granulomatosis. Wegener being a nazi might be a reason for this particular change...

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Donkterreply
lemmy.world

Idk. If we called a certain cancer "the Hitler disease" that would probably get across how dangerous it is.

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Same for Asperger’s. Fun fact: you shouldn’t name a condition after someone who tried to eugenics it away, especially in 1930s-1940s Germany, regardless of if they discovered it

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iAmTheTotreply
kbin.social

She didn't say anything about naming it after him, she said he gets to name it.

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The "Aaaaaaargh fuck that hurts" virus, causing the "That's a lot of damage disease". Deadly of course .

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Easy. I name it "Sparta". So every time when someone asks me what disease I have I can then say "Disease Sparta!".

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This would be a lot funier if the question were the other way around and the response was just about him naming it.

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