In 1965, the World Health Organization (WHO) resolved to abandon the term at the request of the Mongolian People's Republic.[3] Despite several decades of inaction and resistance, the term thereafter began to fade from use, in favor of the term such as Down's Syndrome, Down syndrome and Trisomy 21 disorder. However, as late as 1980, Stephen Jay Gould reported in the book The Panda's Thumb that the term "mongolism" still remained in common use in the United States, despite its being "defamatory" and "wrong on all counts".[11]