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Marcia MacDonald @marcia@spore.social
2y
What do other people with training in or think of the use of as a metaphor? I've always found it super irritating, but maybe other scientists love it?

For example, I'm now seeing it used in the context of social movement organizing and find this kind of usage very distracting, even though the concept they're trying to describe probably makes a lot of sense.

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Tournesol 🌻 @tournesol@peculiar.florist
2y
@marcia It can be irritating bur I make a clear distinction of a scientific speach and a more mundane situation.

In the public imagination, DNA is what makes you "you" and it won't change. In sci-fi, it's what is used to make a clone of yourself or bring back dinosaurs as they were.

And they definitly won't care about reality of what is DNA 🧬
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