It's 2019 can we please stop the stupid?

[Anomalocaris]

I think the only intellectual character in pop culture in recent years has been Hannibal Lector.

Sheldon Cooper.

Boru

Sheldon Cooper was meant to be a no less demeaning caricature of an intellectual than Steve Urkel from Family Matters.

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Stop splitting hairs for the sake of it. I mean, I wouldn't get mad on Twitter about it, but dolphins ain't fish, yo.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/dolphin.html

Find me a biologist who will waffle like the posts in these threads about whether dolphins are fish. None of them actual think you mean Mahi when you say dolphin.

They be mammals, brah. It's such a pointless semantics waste of time to debate it.

That's fair, though when biologists are doing their research, they are expected to use the scientific names for these organisms rather than ambiguous common names.

When biologist publish their research, they are expected to use scientific names.  

When they do research they have full authority to determine what is sufficiently unambiguous in the immediate context to use for the immediate purpose.   They can use “flipper” with each other if the meaning in the context is clear. 

Although if they are known to use “fish” then their doctoral advisor, how ever aged, might still receive a reprimanding call or email.  If the word gets out, their research collaborators might maneuver to keep their names off joint papers.