 One way to potentially render scientific statements more accurate is by demanding that any innateness claim is explicit about the precise environmental contexts being taken into account. Elizabeth O’Neil (2014) proposes this as a strategy for revising the scientific concept of innateness. She proposes that scientists studying innateness should always explicitly identify the environmental contexts in which a given trait is (or is not) developmentally invariant. O’Neill argues that such a shift in scientific discourse would reduce the amount of confusion produced by innateness claims. However, even if this new scientific convention could be established, what further benefit would there be in adding the term ‘innate’ after specifying the actual dimensions and degrees of environmental canalization? Scientists could simply follow Bateson’s call to: “Say what you mean (even if it uses a bit more space) rather than unintentionally confuse your readers by employing a word such as innate that carries so many different connotations” (Bateson 1991, 22).