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Daniel-San wrote:
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Weird that a concept's name has been altered in order to market it more
effectively. No, it's not 'creationism', that big, scary no-no, this is
cue Mighty Mouse theme 'Intelligent Design", as if it's some kind of
hybrid of the two.


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Dan

If you want to read the full ruling as a pdf, go to:

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/images/12/20/kitzmiller.pdf

The judge uses some harsh language to characterize the defendants, but
I think that might be because the judge was peeved about being lied to.

There is a lot of history to renaming something to avoid connotations
of the old name. Take PMS, for one. There is a pathology where some
women experience amplified symptons of what other women normally
experience, but describing the more serious one as "PMS" implies that
everybody deals with it and trivializes it. By naming it something
else, like "Late-phase luteal dysphoric disorder," you make it more
serious to apply to the lady who went postal at a mall. Similar
linquistic phenomena occur in technical or professional jargon, too, as
well as government and corporate parlance.

Beating ------------------corporal punishment
Execution----------------capital punishment
Massive layoffs--------downsizing
Theft-----------------------golden parachute
Mass hysteria----------religion
Juvenile sociopath----God

The list goes on and on and on........

Wolfgang