New Names for Fungi of Medical Importance: Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?

The recently published update of fungal nomenclature1 generated heated debate on social media with predictions of patient harm and disruption of mycological literature, one example being the following Tweets from the Twitter exchange at [https://twitter.com/ABsteward/status/1313985253405536264] (accession date, 23 October 2020).….