Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20140908184727

I was watching [ this video] and it says that gene scientists are considering renaming the Sonic Hedgehog Gene and Robotnikinin because people simply find the names silly and offense.

Personally I don't think these people should care, even the ones who are suffering from malformed limbs since the Sonic Hedgehog Gene is suppose to help with development and that they should be more concerned on the problems than the name.

Plus, isn't there some sort of "law of science" or general discovery that whomever discovers something completely new may name it? So whoever discovered and named the Sonic Hedgehog gene as well as Robotnikinin should have the call for it's keeps or not.

Just feels a shame that something profounding of science was named after Sonic only for that honour to be taken away from him because of "how silly it is". 