YawnTractor_1756 t1_jc8iqji wrote on March 15, 2023 at 1:33 AM

Reply to comment by Ape_Togetha_Strong in In defence of dark energy | Nobel Laureate and dark matter pioneer James Peebles answers critics of dark energy. by IAI_Admin

Of course it is manipulative. Just like Tesla's "Full Self Driving" which is not fully self driving is manipulative. Words have meanings and contexts of their own, which was defined way before me, or the guy who coined Dark Matter, which is neither dark nor matter. Inventing context where black means white and claiming it's not confusing (and ultimately manipulative) is ridiculous.

Ape_Togetha_Strong t1_jc8l2fm wrote on March 15, 2023 at 1:49 AM

Yeah, sorry, that's just not how it works. It's not misleading to call something that doesn't interact with electromagnetism, and thus light, "dark", and it's not misleading to call something that is acting like matter "matter". Whatever hangups you have about these words are really on you. It's not even close to misleading, and even when the short terms given to complex ideas are "misleading", it still doesn't make them manipulative. Things catch on, and once that happens, it isn't getting undone. That's not a conspiracy to manipulate you.