• @[email protected]
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    457 months ago

    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…

    • @Donkter
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      387 months ago

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

    • @captainlezbian
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      47 months ago

      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