Scientific usage of many words often is very specific and unambiguous to scientists regardless of a vague or shifting common usage. Unless you’re publishing pa

Scientific usage of many words often is very specific and unambiguous to scientists regardless of a vague or shifting common usage. Unless you’re publishing papers that have to do with such things, you’re not included in “we” and scientific usage will mostly ignore common usage. Science does not need to adopt a whole new language because the rest of popular culture is ambiguous.