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Lior Pachter fesses up to once being juvenile about names of mathematics theorems, and connects it to the recent kerfuffle over whether the NIPS conference should change its name to something that isn't simultaneously a reference to female anatomy and an anti-asian slur: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/i-was-wrong-part-3/

Via http://retractionwatch.com/2018/11/10/weekend-reads-a-debate-over-journal-editors-academic-corruption-in-china-a-poisoning-in-a-lab/ – see also https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/News for the official announcement that there will be no name change.