Robert P Crease, Physics World; The ethical dilemmas of renaming scientific principles that honour fallen idols
"Is removing a name good because it avoids appearing to endorse the inappropriate behaviour of a scientist and encourages others to do a better job themselves? Or is removing a name bad because it makes us complacent by suggesting that we’ve eliminated a problem and don’t need to worry about it anymore, and in allowing us to pretend to ourselves that physics is done only by the morally stainless?
What, in other words, is the ethics of eponymy? Readers with insights should inform me and I’ll write about the topic in a future column."
