I said this to a room full of people years ago and it turned out to be controversial, so what the heck I'll post it here:
Science results and math theorems should not be named after people, and we should undertake to rename any that currently are. We should prioritize renaming results or theorems named after white men and other privileged categories of people, with special attention to cases where a privileged person accepted or was assigned credit for work a less-privileged person did.
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