According to Slashdot, there’s an increased tendency for the word ‘Evolution’ to be avoided in scientific papers and grants to avoid controversy.
To me, this seems to be pandering to the religious masses, who appear to have a big problem with evolution. Many religious people fail to understand evolution entirely, but it appears that those that do fear it so much that it’s simply becoming the ‘e-word’.
Whatever happens, I think it’s dangerous to allow any part of society to suppress an idea, or even in this case (it seems) simply a word, whatever it’s use. It’s especially dangerous, in this case, when that word and it’s associated concept is the best theory ever to explain the origin of all life and has a huge amount of evidence.