“…The bulk of Mosyakin (2022a,b) concerns the “slippery slope” argument, which was anticipated and dealt with in Hammer & Thiele (2021). In brief, Mosyakin's contention is that if we were to include a provision in the Code and create a mechanism that would allow the rejection, following careful assessment and consideration, of names such as Hibbertia (commemorating George Hibbert, a prominent and wealthy slave trader and key opponent in the English Parliament of Abolition) or epithets that honour Cecil Rhodes (see Smith & Figueiredo, 2022 for arguments and reasoning), then we must inevitably also reject names such as Banksia , Victoria , Darwinia , Linnaea , Aristotelia and a host of others, on the grounds that Joseph Banks, Queen Victoria, Darwin, Linnaeus, Aristotle, and many others also held some views that we disagree with today.…”