dragon-in-a-fez:

it’s so redundant for epinephrine/adrenaline to have two names that are both equally scientific-sounding. if a chemical in my body is going to have two names I think one should be a scientific name, either “epinephrine” or “adrenaline”, and then it should also have a common name like “go juice” or something

Yeah

in the case of that one i think it’s because some company fuckin trademarked the name “adrenaline” so there has to be a generic name that you can use without any of the concerns regarding trademarks

Which is even worse than the similar situation with acetaminophen and paracetamol, which is just a regional language difference

but yeah. these things should all have fun little common /street names that both don’t have to sound scientific and also don’t have to be anyone’s damn trademark. fully agree