A web crawler that moves through all web pages in the Internet, finding instances of the word 'boffin,' and replacing with 'scientist.' Reports each instance to the Ministry of Silly Words.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Mar 13 2014 Definitely not.
Although many scientists are inappropriately labelled as boffins, that is no reason to drop the word from the lexicon.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 13 2014 random, halfbakery