Letter: Views on the call to rewrite genetic terms (2)

Published 21 July 2021

From Denise Taylor, London, UK

It is a basic mistake to imagine that forbidding words has the power to forbid thoughts. I would rather current geneticists spent their time on breakthrough genetic research than language choices.

Issue no. 3344 published 24 July 2021

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