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The headline writer here has evidently decided to take an article about one of physicists’ pet peeves and include a biologist pet peeve—saying something is “in
by rflrob 9y ago
The headline writer here has evidently decided to take an article about one of physicists’ pet peeves and include a biologist pet peeve—saying something is “in our DNA” to mean it’s an apparently inherent part of our cultural legacy, without making any reference to actual biology.
- godelmachine 9y agoIs this something that should be flagged?
- rflrob 9y agoI don’t think so. It is in the headline on Nautilus, and while I think there’s room for yet another article where a scientist carps about how the lay press misuses scientific terms, this whole article is about why “Dark Matter” as a term is evocative, and “in our DNA” has also come to mean something beyond “is encoded in the sequence of our chromosomes“.
- xmonkee 9y agoBut the article is actually making a case against the pet peeve.
- dang 9y agoWe replaced the title with representative language from the article.