26 Nov
2011
26 Nov
'11
4:07 p.m.
Schizophrenic seems to me a ridiculous name for a mathematical concept. e.d. On 25/11/11 11:38, Robert Dawson wrote:
On 24/11/2011 4:33 PM, Tom Leinster wrote:
Dear Sebastian,
There are some people, including me, who are troubled by the term "schizophrenic" and want to replace it. Mental health groups go to some effort to persuade journalists not to use the word in the casual way they sometimes do; schizophrenia is of course a serious and often frightening condition, and it doesn't help when people use language in a way that perpetuates an inaccurate stereotype.
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