alt Hacker NewsIs “synthetic” the right word?
I thought they are “lab grown”.
(Synthetic implies non-real, when at a molecular level the lab grown are 100% real)
Is “synthetic” the right word?
I thought they are “lab grown”.
(Synthetic implies non-real, when at a molecular level the lab grown are 100% real)
I think synthetic ~ synthesized in this context, as opposed to "not real".
Sense 4a1 here, not 4c: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthetic