We can drop the words 'sound science' as soon as non-scientists return to keeping their mouth shut about what is and isn't 'settled' scientifically. We use the term 'sound science' while teaching students and have for a long time, the public doesn't get to dictate our terminology. I gather people have been known to object to eigenvectors and eigenfunction because eigen is german for proper, and they thought it was un-PC what with the Nazis always labeling things as right or superior. Objecting to saying sound before science is just as bizarre as would be 'proper' 'proven' 'trustworthy' 'firm' or just about any other one. We do that, we'd have to drop one of our favorite lines "Well, the theory is sound..."


I guess that would depend on the context someone's using it in. There are some loose guidelines that the vast majority of parents aim for, people who vigorously pursue ends to support that can call themselves a family values candidate, although with so many public cases of violation its sort of falling out of use.



Yeah, this is overused, but it really just became a handy shorter was of saying environmentally safe, eco-friendly, etc which were previously in use.



Totally legit, the term was coined when acid rain was all the rage, the tech involved cleans the coal of impurities like sulfur dioxide, obviously you can't clean carbon out of coal since that's what coal is. If people have weird ideas about it, that's their own problem, we're not going to re-name technology that's exactly what it sounds like because some people don't realize that cleaning coal of impurities and capturing or sequestering the primary byproduct of burning coal are different.



'True American' is and 'patriot' have been kicked around for a very long time. 'Genuine American' or 'Traditional American' aren't very catchy.



I was actually under the impression that was the preferred term for it, I shall make a point of watching my use of the term. Id do regular say things like 'conservative agenda', 'liberal agenda', 'environmentalist agenda' 'our agenda' 'the agenda of...' 'MSM Agenda', there some alternate term? I wouldn't advise LGBT, personally I have a bad tendency to say LGTB and I'm waiting for the day I totally garble it and say BLT. When people say conservative/liberal/environmental/etc agenda they aren't trying to imply everyone with those beliefs holds secret meetings involving pagan rites, mass murder, etc either



I've very attached to the word heartland, personally I've always thought Ohio was kind of heart-shaped, but the region is called that because it's at the center or 'heart' of the country and also happens to be the agricultural center. Aslo don't know why you're saying there aren't many people in the midwest, it's 12 states. There are around 70-80 million people living there, of which 30 million live in just the ten biggest cities, IIRC 3 of the top ten most populous states are in the midwest, illinois, ohio, and michigan.



Well, the first list wasn't exactly jam-packed full of bad terms