26 Scientific Terms That Started As Jokes
It’s easy to think of scientists as very serious people. After all, they deal in very serious matters: cures for diseases, substances that form the building blocks of society, the nature of our universe — you know, little things like that. And if they don’t take them seriously, very bad things can happen. Have you ever heard of the large hadron collider? Go down that rabbit hole and tell us how you would feel about technicians choreographing TikTok dances around there.
But all that seriousness takes a toll on you, and if you don’t get your sillies out, you might pull an oopsie and accidentally unmake the world. As a result, a lot of important inventions and ideas are named after things that simply made some PhD somewhere giggle. We found out some of them when user MortifiedPharrp4 asked r/AskReddit, “Which scientific term was named as a joke but is now widely accepted?
