Independent reports indicate that the name “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” was coined on a discussion thread on the St. Paul Pioneer Press in ~1995. Participants were discussing the sensation, and decrying the lack of a term for it, so someone asserted naming rights and called it “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon” presumably based on their own experience hearing that moniker twice in close temporal proximity.
Personally I'm more interested in the history of a word or name than in the "politically correct" or "scientifically accepted".
It's not politically correct. It's just to avoid ambiguity which is a different matter. Frequency illusion is more descriptive too. Baader Meinhof says absolutely nothing about what it involves.
This.
It's probably a little controversial to like the name for this reason but apparently it got its name from that very group being heard of more than once in a short time.
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/
Personally I'm more interested in the history of a word or name than in the "politically correct" or "scientifically accepted".
It's not politically correct. It's just to avoid ambiguity which is a different matter. Frequency illusion is more descriptive too. Baader Meinhof says absolutely nothing about what it involves.