I think this boils down to journalists trying to bait outrage by implying that scientific definitions should dictate cultural ones (tomato may be a fruit biolog

I think this boils down to journalists trying to bait outrage by implying that scientific definitions should dictate cultural ones (tomato may be a fruit biologically speaking but if you put it in a fruit salad nobody will like you). Pluto is a "planet" in the same way the sun is "not a star". If you tell someone to draw some stars you'll be confused if they just draw a few massive orbs of fire rather than some bright dots. Before publishers discovered outrage bait as a way to sell ads, "actually Pluto is a dwarf planet not a planet" would have been an irrelevant nerdy factoid but now it's presented as a cultural issue everyone needs to have an opinion on. So I propose just giving scientists migraines instead and discussing whether the sun and moon should be considered planets or stars.