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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsis Pharmaceuticals changes its 'unfortunate' name to avoid confusion (they'll now be called ISIL)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-isis-pharma-namechange-idUSKBN0U12A720151218After deliberating for most of the year, Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday it would change its name to avoid being confused with the Islamist militant group known as ISIS.
The biotechnology company said it would be called Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc from Dec. 22 and also changed its stock exchange ticker symbol to "IONS" from "ISIS".
"It's been an ongoing discussion for most of this year", Chief Business Officer Sarah Boyce told Reuters.
"When you talk about the company you want people to immediately think about the incredible work you're doing to deliver transformational drugs to patients ... not as an unfortunate namesake."
The Carlsbad, California-based company's stock dropped about 4 percent on the first trading day after the Paris attacks, for which ISIS claimed responsibility.
If this ONLY reminds you of Ayds gum ("Try peanut butter Ayds!" ...
Then you've already forgotten Nads hair removal wipes
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Isis Pharmaceuticals changes its 'unfortunate' name to avoid confusion (they'll now be called ISIL) (Original Post)
Bucky
Dec 2015
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Yeah, or who can forget the short lived fast food chain "McShitburgers"
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2015
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Initech
(100,101 posts)1. What about the International Secret Intelligence Service?
spanone
(135,873 posts)2. oops!!!!
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Quantess
(27,630 posts)3. There are a lot of women and girls named Isis, too.
Time for them to get a nickname!
Bucky
(54,065 posts)4. Girl's nickname, yes! Something sweet like "Sinn Fein"
or something exotic and coquettish like "Aum Shinrikyo"
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)6. Indeed.
And thanks to her, I developed a lifelong love of womens' tennis.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Yeah, or who can forget the short lived fast food chain "McShitburgers"
Anyway, they could always change their name to something like "Daesh Drugs, Inc."